J. P. Donleavy Quotes
Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty,
climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.
J. P. Donleavy
Quotes to Explore
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
Calvin Trillin
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
Dan Harmon
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucas
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
Edmund White
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You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
Parker Stevenson
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Jon Anik better get a motherfucking 209 tattoo or I'm whoop is little ass.
Nate Diaz
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You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.
Alan Lomax
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
Samuel Beckett
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We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity.
Philip Hammond
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In short, finance gives you the opportunity to dramatically increase your consumption by doing nothing—or, more precisely, by choosing not to consume everything you produce today, but instead providing the productive economy with savings that can be used to generate additional economic value with minimal effort on your part. For all of the demonization of financiers, this is as close to magic as you can get.
Yaron Brook
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Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty,
climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.
J. P. Donleavy
