When you don't have any ...

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

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