J. P. Donleavy - The Ginger Man (1955)

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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

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

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

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

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

J. P. Donleavy