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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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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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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Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.
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I did do some things different [in John Wick 2], but it's different on basically the same things. Because I have the background from the first film, it was really the first time I was doing judo and jiu-jitsu.
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I mean another thing I thought was, for example, important about Early One Morning, how long it is and you don't get it all in one.
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And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin, But she is the sort of person you could liken to a pin. And she pricks you, and she sticks you, in a way that can't be said, When you seek for what has hurt you, why, you cannot find the head.
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I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.
