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Anything Quotes by John Irving
- It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
- No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years…
- We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.
- The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
- All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people…
- The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way…
- If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.
- Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
- YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET…
- I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and…
- I never wanted my kids to feel I was more interested in anything I was doing than I was in them.
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- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
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