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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I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.
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I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.
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That which is excellent endures.
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I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.
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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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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.
