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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I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.
Jeri Ryan
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Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?
Linus Torvalds
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I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I'm crossing that limit sometimes.
Ingmar Bergman
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If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.
Napoleon Hill
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If I made a film today, it would certainly be on digital.
John Waters
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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
