“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 rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.”

— J. P. Donleavy , book The Ginger Man

The Ginger Man (1955; New York: Delacorte Press, 1973) p. 45.

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