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One Quotes by John Irving
- You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't…
- I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a…
- The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.
- You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.
- They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were…
- In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of…
- It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that…
- It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to…
- We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky,…
- I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the…
- No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
- He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.
- Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish…
- And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the…
- No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You…
- 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…
- One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle