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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Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass *smack* I'M YOUR SON FROM THE FUTURE!! AAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! *smack* I'M FROM THE FUTURE!! I'M YOUR SON!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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I've been surfing several times, and I'm terrible at it. But what I found was that you're usually waiting on the board, hanging out, watching the waves come in. And one that you think is a big wave is not actually one.
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... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.
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My hair is a battle. It's an uphill, fine, baby-haired battle.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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The story revolved around this universal identifiable fear that we must all have, at some point, when you commit yourself to being with another person, to have and to hold until death do us part. It's a huge thing. I just felt like it was a brilliant examination of what would happen, if the person that you trusted implicitly and thought you knew every follicle and pour of, inside and out, started to not be that person anymore, inside. Physically, they're still there, but they're not there mentally.
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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.
