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Sense Quotes by John Irving
- To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make…
- It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such…
- Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
- Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first…
- I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a…
- 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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- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden