"When I die, I want to decompose in……" — J P Donleavy
"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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17 Quotes by J P Donleavy
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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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