J. P. Donleavy Quotes
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I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.
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To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
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Took the G out yo waffle, all you got left is your ego.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
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Of course if you happen to time the market really well, you can make more money with some of these smaller companies, but for someone with no exposure I wouldn't want to take the risk that they timed it wrong.
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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.
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When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
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My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!
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Gravity is a response to geometry.
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With ills unending strives the putter off.
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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.
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I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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Reprisals are but a sad resource.
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What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
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So I was at the gas station the other day, and I saw that there was braille on the pumps. I don't see how they can cater to blind drivers. I mean, there are certain rights you should lose once you lose what makes you a person.
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I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
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You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
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I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.
