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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

J. P. Donleavy

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J. P. Donleavy
Age: 91 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 23
Died: 2017
Died: September 11
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
James Patrick Donleavy
J.P. Donleavy
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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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You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
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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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Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse.
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The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
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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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I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.
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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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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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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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I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
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If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.
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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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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
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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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