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Watching copulating dung-beetles is exciting if you drink enough Red Bull, Jack. — Jonathan Dunne

Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. — Finley Peter Dunne

Where all is fog, a blind man with a stick is not entirely at a disadvantage. — J.W. Dunne

Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up. — Finley Peter Dunne

She is the clock-guardian. I was thinking about getting a German Shepherd, but they don't blow fire. — Jonathan Dunne

Gail, we found traces of cancer. — Lexie Dunne

The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar. — Finley Peter Dunne

I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me. — Dominick Dunne

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York. — Griffin Dunne

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field. — John Gregory Dunne

If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse. — Finley Peter Dunne

Marvin wasn't a beat-box gangsta-rapper-bitch, but a stressed invalid in a town not equipped with ramps. — Jonathan Dunne

There are no friends at cards or world politics. — Finley Peter Dunne

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. — Finley Peter Dunne

I met a few chimpanzees on my pilgrimages and I wasn't sure if they were just shrivelled-up villagers or chimps... — Jonathan Dunne

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.
Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.
But th' shelf is th' main thing. — Finley Peter Dunne

I don't see hair when I see your mohawk. I see attitude. — Jonathan Dunne

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien ... that the more you see it the better you like it. — Finley Peter Dunne

It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess. — Charles Busch

The Russian Dolls would sue a snowman for sexual harassment if they thought the sun would stay away. — Jonathan Dunne

If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around. — Finley Peter Dunne

To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes. — Finley Peter Dunne

A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself. — Finley Peter Dunne

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum. — Dominick Dunne

Trust everybody, but always cut the cards. — Finley Peter Dunne

Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show. — Irene Dunne

Mama, rest in pieces, used to call it Dada's hibernation because sometimes people don't wake up from a coma. — Jonathan Dunne

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv. — Finley Peter Dunne

We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care. — Dominick Dunne

But some jokes are hilarious until they become true and they're not so funny anymore. — Jonathan Dunne

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society. — Dominick Dunne

My old man always told me to retrace my steps, but what's the point if I can't remember where my feet are, let alone my footsteps... — Jonathan Dunne

I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady. — Irene Dunne

Humour is my best defence, so humour me. — Jonathan Dunne

I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is. — Irene Dunne

You think road-kill is poetry! — Jonathan Dunne

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels. — Finley Peter Dunne

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription. — Finley Peter Dunne

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man. — Finley Peter Dunne

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal. — John Gregory Dunne

Charlene's thoughts:
I'm next in the green jumper's Class. I thought I'd be in the red jumpers' class because of my red hair. — Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless. — Dominick Dunne

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas. — Irene Dunne

There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue. — Finley Peter Dunne

The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans. — Finley Peter Dunne

Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track. — John Gregory Dunne

My old man always told me never do anything during the day that will keep you awake at night. — Jonathan Dunne

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word. — Griffin Dunne

Payback takes many forms but from the business-end of a Christmas turkey isn't a form I would've bet on... — Jonathan Dunne

Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night. — Finley Peter Dunne

Sarah is a mirage after all; an oasis in this arid, amnesiac, desert mindscape. I fear if I get too close she too will turn to dust. — Jonathan Dunne

If we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything. — Irene Dunne

No, there was nothing unusual in any of these dreams as dreams. They were merely displaced in Time. — J.W. Dunne

Gonzo, the enlightened hippy-biker island god, was a hermit in every sense of the word; a hermit crab and this island was his shell. — Jonathan Dunne

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster. — Philip Dunne

Ruby: Oh Rosie Dunne, expect the unexpected for once. Maybe this time you won't get such a shock when things don't go your way. — Cecelia Ahern

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty. — Finley Peter Dunne

And before you make any judgments, that time you were trying out your king-size with the sales assistant doesn't count as getting a man into bed. — Jonathan Dunne

I wish this country was run by children — Jonathan Dunne

My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man ... but there was something about me that drove him crazy. — Dominick Dunne

Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while. — Finley Peter Dunne

I think I need pictures with my articles. — Dominick Dunne

Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it. — Finley Peter Dunne

Thank you. This kimono was handmade by the Chinese silkworms themselves, I'm led to believe. — Jonathan Dunne

Time will always have the answer in the end, whether you like that answer is immaterial to Time because it tends not to keep friends. — Jonathan Dunne

I don't believe he was made in China, but I do believe he is disposable. — Jonathan Dunne

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. — Finley Peter Dunne

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't. — John Gregory Dunne

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized — John Gregory Dunne

Richard Dunne comes from a great footballing family ... the Dunne family — Johnny Giles

A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption. — Peter Dunne

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. — John Gregory Dunne

I even watched Mulholland Drive in French ... it didn't make much more sense in French, but I have to say, it didn't make any less sense either. — Tom Dunne

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking. — Griffin Dunne

Henry," he said. "You are skilled. I exhort you. — Chad Harbach

You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen. — Leo McCarey

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals. — Finley Peter Dunne

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer. — Griffin Dunne

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife. — Finley Peter Dunne

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films. — Irene Dunne

Father has a fear of flying since that aeroplane crashed into his bedroom. — Jonathan Dunne

Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub. — Irene Dunne

I'll buy Chiquita bananas with your smoking-fund money cos this monkey is our future. All hail the monkey! — Jonathan Dunne

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier. — John Gregory Dunne

A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time. — Finley Peter Dunne

Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough. — Dominick Dunne

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time. — Philip Dunne

Be careful of what you wish for because sometimes it just might come untrue. — Jonathan Dunne

What do you read for pleasure?
Kama Sutra. — Jonathan Dunne

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other. — Griffin Dunne

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember. — Philip Dunne

Silvia Dunne's voice sounded calm and even, but April knew her mother was like a grenade with the pin out - she could explode any minute. — Mia James

Why did you call me Jack of Hearts?'
'Because you like to gamble girls' hearts and play them close to your chest. — Jonathan Dunne

I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s. — Griffin Dunne

I began high school in 1959, B.C. (before cable). — Danny Dunne

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. — Peter Dunne

In that brief kiss, Arthur's demigod had abandoned him. — Jonathan Dunne

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love. — Philip Dunne

When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters. — Griffin Dunne

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars. — Dominick Dunne