Novelist James Patrick (J.P.) Donleavy, was born in Brooklyn, New York (1926). He was in the Navy in World War II, then went off to Trinity College, Dublin, on the GI bill. His first novel, The Ginger Man (1955), was included in the Modern Library's list of the 100 best works of fiction of the twentieth century; in Ireland it's the seventh best-selling book of all time. He became an Irish citizen in 1967.
*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, you worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
*Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
*When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
*All I want is one break which is not my neck.
*I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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