John Irving Quotes
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.
John Irving
Quotes to Explore
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Danica McKellar
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
L'Wren Scott
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
Wendell Berry
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
Val Kilmer
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
A. R. Ammons
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There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.
John Dawson Winter III
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We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.
Steve Scalise
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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
William Hazlitt
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Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of the world that has a Gap and Benneton's, and the upscale versions of those.
William Gibson
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When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.
John Irving