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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Looks
Marry Me
Poverty
Marry
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Moments
Worst Moments
Writing
Writing Fiction
Turning
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I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Christianity
Insolence
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If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Ifs
Needs
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You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Dies
Knows
Lawyer
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Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse.
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See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Age
Faces
Hands
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The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Father
Mother
Writing
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On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Comfort
Nice
Way
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Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Blessed
Pieces
Sea
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The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Fighting
Long
Sides
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Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Mind
Pain
Thinking
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I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Ordinary
Real
Real Love
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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 / Novelist
Dublin
Pubs
Barrel
Porter
Served
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Disappointed
Found
Human Nature
Too Much
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Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Mother
Revenge
Want
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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 / Novelist
Caught
Eternity
Necks
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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 / Novelist
Book
Writing
Years
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When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Death
Funny
Beer
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And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.
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Fall
Lost Love
Pain
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At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.
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Age
Needs
Thinking
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When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Money
Healthy
Sex
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Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.
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Book
Divorce
Past
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Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they're not kind of prepared for.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Book
Thinking
Writing
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I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered it- that no one had ever read it or knew about it. Then one day in her local library she found cards for one or two of my other books. They were full of names- the books were borrowed all the time. She resented this a bit and then walked around the town looking in everybody's face and wondering if they were the ones who were reading my books. That is someone I write for.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Girl
Book
Reading
Writing
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Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control concussion match with opponents catapulting croutons and petits pois across the mahogany, don't fight it, go with it. And when you have the desire to quell the uprising approach the original perpetrator from behind. There, slowly crown her with the contents of the fresh fruit salad bowl. But be warned. Although this immobilizes and rivits everyone's attention it also gives them new ideas.
J. P. Donleavy / Novelist
Couple
Fighting
Party
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