27 Quotes by J. P. Donleavy

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    ... With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, picket fences and balls don't mix.

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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?

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    On Being Old. It’s not nice but take comfort that you won’t stay that way for ever.

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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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    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.

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    The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

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

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