"And no. I must not go on thinking.……" — J P Donleavy
"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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17 Quotes by J P Donleavy
J P Donleavy has 17 quotes on this site.
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When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs…
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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…
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The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
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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,…
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See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
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You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
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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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Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my…
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Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to…
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More Desertion Quotes
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,…
— Samuel Butler
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The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down…
— John Nelson Darby
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The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in…
— Mother Teresa
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink…
— Samuel Beckett
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To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his…
— Unknown Author
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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went…
— Emile Zola
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be…
— Lysander Spooner
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When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to…
— Rebecca Solnit
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The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence,…
— David McCullough
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink…
— Marcel Proust
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