The purpose of writing is to ...

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

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.
 J. P. Donleavy
Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.
 J. P. Donleavy
When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death
 J. P. Donleavy