J. P. Donleavy Quotes

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About J. P. Donleavy

James Patrick Donleavy (born 23 April 1926) is a U.S.-born Irish novelist and playwright.

Born: April 23rd, 1926

Categories: Irish novelists, Irish playwrights, Living people, People from New York

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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
All I want Is one break Which is not My neck.
Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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.
On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.
The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.
J. P. Donleavy
• "The Funeral of Denny Cordell" (1995), cited from An Author and his Image: The Collected Short Pieces (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997) p. 178.
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