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Take deeds
Away.
Play music
please. — J.P. Donleavy

You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies. — J.P. Donleavy

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight. — J.P. Donleavy

New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand. — David B. Lentz

How when one is able to indulge the luxury of beginning one's life again.
All one thinks
To do
Is end it — J.P. Donleavy

I'm sick of people. The less I have to do with them for the rest of my life the better. I don't careif I die. — J.P. Donleavy

Good day, fair maidens. — Val Venis

We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever. — Roberto Goizueta

Writing is turning life's worst moments into money. — J.P. Donleavy

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever. — J.P. Donleavy

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D. — J.P. Donleavy

Determination, however, can take the place of patience, if earnestly applied. — Cornelia Meigs

I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something. — J.P. Donleavy

I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me. — Vincent Gallo

A little still she strove, and much repented,
And whispering "I will ne'er consent" - consented. — George Gordon Byron

Expect the worst
And that's what
You'll get
Only it will be
Much worse. — J.P. Donleavy

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. — J.P. Donleavy

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. — J.P. Donleavy

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. — J.P. Donleavy

Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain. — J.P. Donleavy

Writing: Turning one's worst moments into profit. — J.P. Donleavy

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. — J.P. Donleavy

The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful! — Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down. — J.P. Donleavy

There was freedom of speech in this era," James Oliver reminds the gentle reader, "so long as you were prepared to pay for it at the end of a rope. — James A. Oliver

The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films. — J.P. Donleavy

... With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, picket fences and balls don't mix. — J.P. Donleavy

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady. — J.P. Donleavy

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me. — Fay Godwin

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. — J.P. Donleavy

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands. — J.P. Donleavy

When I'm dead, I hope it may be said: his sins were scarlet, but his books were read. — J.P. Donleavy

If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it. — J.P. Donleavy

Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty,
climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by. — J.P. Donleavy

If there's a sickness in America, it's the lack of materialism. — J.P. Donleavy