J. P. Donleavy Quotes

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I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.

J. P. Donleavy
Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

J. P. Donleavy
On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

J. P. Donleavy
Expect the worst
And that's what
You'll get
Only it will be
Much worse.

J. P. Donleavy
All I want
Is one break
Which is not
My neck.

J. P. Donleavy
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

J. P. Donleavy
When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

J. P. Donleavy
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

J. P. Donleavy
Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.

J. P. Donleavy
But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health, you worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

J. P. Donleavy
You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.

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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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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?

J. P. Donleavy
The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

J. P. Donleavy
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

J. P. Donleavy