J. P. Donleavy Quotes
The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.
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There are no small parts; there are only small actors.
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Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.
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Music is a paradise lost to us long long ago, perhaps never to be regained.
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The fickle populace always change with the prince.
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I'm a human, too. I'm not an angel. I'm a devil.
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God loves it when His children pray BIG, BOLD PRAYERS. Don't be afraid to ask your Father for anything!
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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It's funny how even when the sky falls around us, people still have to make pancakes.
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I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.
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Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering.
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It's easy to get lost in endless speculation. So today, release the need to know why things happen as they do. Instead, ask for the insight to recognize what you're meant to learn.
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Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.
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I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
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Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason.
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There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.
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The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.
