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Take deedsAway.
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
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
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
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 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
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