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Category: J.P. Donleavy

Writing is turning one’s worst moments into money.

writers, writing

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.

O summer and soft wind. Relieves the heart and makes living cheaper.

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

being-a-lady, divorce, revenge

… With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, picket fences and balls don’t mix.

humorous, quotes

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.

marriage, women

Writing is turning one’s worst moments into money.

memories, moments, money, writing

Writing is turning life’s worst moments into money.

humor, philosophy-of-life, writing

Writing is turning one’s worst moments into money.

memories, moments, money, writing

Writing is turning life’s worst moments into money.

humor, philosophy-of-life, writing