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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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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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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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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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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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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I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
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We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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I have always been a fierce fighter against anti-Semitism. I oppose it and always have.
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I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.
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Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
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After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.
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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
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I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.
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These are hard subjects to talk about because you can sound like such a dickhead. I'm the sort of character who's got to have an anchor. I want to be around immovable objects. I want to build my house on a rock, because even if the waters are not high around the house, I'm going to bring back a storm. I have that in me. So it's sort of underpinning for me.
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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.
