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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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J. P. Donleavy
#Book Quotes
#Divorce Quotes
#Past Quotes
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“Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.”
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J. P. Donleavy
Source : Quoted in Playboy, May 1979
#Writing Quotes
#Moments Quotes
#Worst Quotes
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“The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.”
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J. P. Donleavy
#Mother Quotes
#Father Quotes
#Writing Quotes
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“To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.”
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J. P. Donleavy
Source : J. P. Donleavy (2010). “The Ginger Man”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
#Looks Quotes
#Poverty Quotes
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“Expect the worst And that's what You'll get Only it will be Much worse.”
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J. P. Donleavy
#Worst Quotes
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“Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ***** as it floats by.”
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J. P. Donleavy
#Blessed Quotes
#Sea Quotes
#Pieces Quotes
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“I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.”
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J. P. Donleavy
Source : J. P. Donleavy (2010). “The Ginger Man”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
#Christianity Quotes
#Insolence Quotes
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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.”
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J. P. Donleavy
Source : J. P. Donleavy (2007). “A Fairy Tale of New York”, p.183, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
#Too Much Quotes
#Human Nature Quotes
#Found Quotes
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“On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.”
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J. P. Donleavy
Source : "The Unexpurgated Code". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1975.
#Nice Quotes
#Comfort Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.”
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J. P. Donleavy
Source : "An Author and his Image: The Collected Short Pieces". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1997.
#Fighting Quotes
#Long Quotes
#Sides Quotes
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“Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.”
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J. P. Donleavy
Source : "The Saddest Summer of Samuel S". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1966.
#Pain Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Mind Quotes
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“I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.”
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J. P. Donleavy
Source : J. P. Donleavy (2010). “The Ginger Man”, p.149, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
#Real Quotes
#Real Love Quotes
#Ordinary Quotes
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“You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.”
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J. P. Donleavy
Source : J. P. Donleavy (2007). “A Fairy Tale of New York”, p.214, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
#Lawyer Quotes
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“See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.”
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J. P. Donleavy
#Hands Quotes
#Age Quotes
#Faces Quotes
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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”
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J. P. Donleavy
Source : The Ginger Man ch. 5 (1955)
#Money Quotes
#Sex Quotes
#Jake Quotes
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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.”
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J. P. Donleavy
#Couple Quotes
#Party Quotes
#Fighting Quotes
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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?”
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J. P. Donleavy
Source : Ginger Man (1955) ch. 31
#Beer Quotes
#Dublin Quotes
#Want Quotes
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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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J. P. Donleavy
Source : J. P. Donleavy (2007). “The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B”, p.299, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
#Pain Quotes
#Lost Love Quotes
#Fall Quotes
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“Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.”
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J. P. Donleavy
#Mother Quotes
#Revenge Quotes
#Want Quotes
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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.”
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J. P. Donleavy
Source : J. P. Donleavy (2010). “The Ginger Man”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
#Necks Quotes
#Eternity Quotes
#Caught Quotes
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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.”
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J. P. Donleavy
#Book Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Years Quotes
