Jp Donleavy Quotes

New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand. ~ David B. Lentz

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. ~ J.P. Donleavy

Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it ... Should your dinner party have become an out of control concussion match with opponents catapulting croutons and petits pois across the mahogany, don't fight it, go with it. And when you have the desire to quell the uprising approach the original perpetrator from behind. There, slowly crown her with the contents of the fresh fruit salad bowl. But be warned. Although this immobilizes and rivits everyone's attention it also gives them new ideas. ~ J.P. Donleavy

Ginny Cupper took me in her car out to the spread fields of Indiana. Parking near the edge of woods and walking out into the sunny rows of corn, waving seeds to a yellow horizon. She wore a white blouse and a gray patch of sweat under her arms and the shadow of her nipples was gray. We were rich. So rich we could never die. Ginny laughed and laughed, white saliva on her teeth lighting up the deep red of her mouth, fed the finest food in the world. Ginny was afraid of nothing. She was young and old. Her brown arms and legs swinging in wild optimism, beautiful in all their parts. She danced on the long hood of her crimson Cadillac, and watching her, I thought that God must be female. She leaped into my arms and knocked me to the ground and screamed into my mouth. ~ J.P. Donleavy

The G.O.P. and the conservative establishment in America are on the verge of a reckoning. ~ JP Bernbach

Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase should not be permitted to charge consumers 25- to 30-percent interest on their credit cards, especially while these banks received over $4 trillion in loans from the Federal Reserve. ~ Bernie Sanders

The sun of Sunday morning up out of the sleepless sea from black Liverpool. Sitting on the rocks over the water with a jug of coffee. Down there along the harbor pier, trippers in bright colors. Sails moving out to sea. Young couples climbing the Balscaddoon Road to the top of Kilrock to search out grass and lie between the furze. A cold green sea breaking whitely along the granite coast. A day on which all things are born, like uncovered stars. ~ J.P. Donleavy

She does this. Told me JP was cheating on me, trashed my Facebook page-'
'Why?'
'Because she's like that.'
'I thought you two were friends.'
'We are.'
'So how, exactly, do you define the term, "friend"? ~ E.M. Tippetts

If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it. ~ J.P. Donleavy

She thought too that women didn't know what to do with themselves these days which could turn them into harridans. Hardly a female friend she knew wasn't miserable. Either mind dumb with children, or in the married condition married to an earnest toiler, or lonely unmarried in their successful career. ~ J.P. Donleavy

Choose your best talent and focus on it! ~ Jp

Charlotte blushed again and he laughed. Her cell phone rang and she tapped it and said, I'm okay, JP. I'll be home in ten minutes. ~ Kimball Lee

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need. ~ J.P. Donleavy

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. ~ J.P. Donleavy

Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what. ~ J.P. Donleavy

I wish I were a Russian. It's so exciting. ~ J.P. Donleavy

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. ~ J.P. Donleavy

Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they're not kind of prepared for. ~ J.P. Donleavy

It's a scarf," said Horace. "Miss P was able to smuggle me a pair of needles, and I knitted it while I was in my cell. I reckon that making it kept me from going mad in there." I thanked him and unfolded it. The scarf was simple and gray with knotted tassels on the ends, but it was well made and even had my initials monogrammed in one corner. JP. ~ Ransom Riggs

When I'm dead, I hope it may be said: his sins were scarlet, but his books were read. ~ J.P. Donleavy

As journalist Matt Taibbi recalls in his book The Divide: It's become cliché by now, but since 2008, no high-ranking executive from any financial institution has gone to jail, not one, for any of the systemic crimes that wiped out 40 percent of the world's wealth. Even now, after JP Morgan Chase agreed to a settlement north of $13 billion for a variety of offenses.… the basic principle held true: nobody went to jail. Not one person. (...)

On the one hand, he finds, "Twenty-six billion dollars of fraud: no charges"; on the other, the San Diego County District Attorney's office conducts 26,000 warrantless, preemptive searches every year to make sure that welfare recipients really are exactly as poor as the poverty bureaucracy demands that they be. ~ Kristian Williams

I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down. ~ J.P. Donleavy

Respecting others is the biggest discipline. ~ JP Joshi

Can you please stop talking so I can go back to enjoying Daniel Craig's outrageously good body?" "That's so gay," JP said. "I'm a girl," said the Duke. "It's not gay for me to be attracted to men. Now, if I said you had a hot body, that would be gay, because you're built like a lady." "Oh, burn," I said. The Duke raised her eyes at me and said, "Although JP's a freaking paragon of masculinity compared to you." I had no response to that. "Keun is at work," I said. "He gets paid double on Christmas Eve." "Oh, right," said JP. "I forgot that Waffle Houses are like Lindsay Lohan's legs: always open. ~ John Green

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady. ~ J.P. Donleavy

Today, women have as much of a place as protagonists and antagonist as men. ~ JP Wolfe

I'm sick of people. The less I have to do with them for the rest of my life the better. I don't careif I die. ~ J.P. Donleavy

This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others - has called on Congress to raise the eligibility age of Social Security and Medicare to 70, cut Social Security and veterans' COLAs, raise taxes on working families and cut taxes for the largest corporations in America. ~ Bernie Sanders

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate. ~ Matt Taibbi

And Mary, what of other men? There are no other men because my heart has gone out to you. And if you don't laugh I'll tell you what i think. I won't laugh. I think it's a fine instrument that God made for the poor likes of us to enjoy. ~ J.P. Donleavy

I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something. ~ J.P. Donleavy

How when one is able to indulge the luxury of beginning one's life again.
All one thinks
To do
Is end it ~ J.P. Donleavy

Writing is turning life's worst moments into money. ~ J.P. Donleavy

Expect the worst
And that's what
You'll get
Only it will be
Much worse. ~ J.P. Donleavy

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it. ~ Jamie Dimon

This Boston voice squeaking out its song. The yellow light goes out the window on the stubs of windy grass and black rocks. And down the wet steps by gorse stumps and rusty heather to the high water mark and diving pool. Where the seaweeds rise and fall at night in Balscaddoon Bay. ~ J.P. Donleavy

The JP preference does show itself in simple and accessible reactions. It serves admirably as the fourth dichotomy if one detail is borne in mind: It deals only with outward behavior and thus points only indirectly to the dominant process of the introvert. ~ Isabel Briggs Myers

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest JP court in the land, or this honourable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal ~ Harper Lee

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much. ~ John Green

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever. ~ J.P. Donleavy

And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved. ~ J.P. Donleavy

Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain. ~ J.P. Donleavy