"The purpose of writing is to make your……" — J P Donleavy
"The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame."
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17 Quotes by J P Donleavy
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And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and…
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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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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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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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