"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"

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Source : The Ginger Man ch. 5 (1955)

J. P. Donleavy

#Money Quotes #Sex Quotes #Jake Quotes

“I'm a sucker for a woman with beautiful eyes.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Dogs have owners, cats have staff.”
“I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.”
“If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon as an active, animate entity with which we find ourselves engaged. To the sensing body, no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.”
“The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.”
“This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.”
“The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.”
“And none will hear the postmanâ€™s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?”

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