J. P. Donleavy Quotes
Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.
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Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one.
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It's a rum state of affairs when you feel like punching a jar of mayonnaise in the face.
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'I've heard assorted rhapsodies about humankind going to the stars, of course. Who hasn't? Each of them founders on the practical problems.' 'The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.'
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The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.
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With a successful center-right party such as ours, it is hard for the radical right to find room to operate. This is why they repeatedly attack us in the ugliest manner. They attack us more than they attack the Jewish community or the 'Jewish conspiracy' - which they believe exists. I am one of their main targets.
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Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.
