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Them Quotes by John Irving
- Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no…
- 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 suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting…
- Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from…
- I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and…
- Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you…
- We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
- The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
- It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had…
- Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to…
- The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
- It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the…
- She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.
- Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.
- Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them…
- Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their…
- 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…
- so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no…
- Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
- All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them -…
- So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother…
- In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings,…
- 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 never wanted my kids to feel I was more interested in anything I was doing than I was in them.
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster