"The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight."

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Source : "An Author and his Image: The Collected Short Pieces". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1997.

J. P. Donleavy

#Fighting Quotes #Long Quotes #Sides Quotes

“Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.”
“I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.”
“The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.”
“Friendship is the union of spirits...”
“For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn't imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadn't fully written it essentially the character wasn't finished.”
“It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.”
“Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about what goes on outside their shores. They are people who believe the world stretches from California to Boston and everything outside is the bit they have to bomb to keep the price of oil down. Only one in five Americans hold a passport and the only foreign stories that make their news are floods, famine, and wars, because it makes them feel good to be an American. Feeling good to be American is what they live for.”
“If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.”

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