List of J. P. Donleavy Quotes

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J. P. Donleavy
Total Quotes 25
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.
Book Writing Years
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.
Thinking Age Needs
See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
Hands Age Faces
You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
Lawyer Knows Dies
To marry the irish is to look for poverty.
Looks Poverty Marry Me
If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.
Needs Ifs
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.
Pain Lost Love Fall
Revenge is what i want. nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. but my mother brought me up to be a lady.
Mother Revenge Want
Dear mr skully, i have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. yours in death s.d.
Necks Eternity Caught
Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. i don't think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they're not kind of prepared for.
Book Writing Thinking
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
Mother Father Writing
I'm all for christianity, but insolence must be put down.
Christianity Insolence
  • Born: April 23, 1926
  • Occupation: Novelist
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