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Then Quotes by John Irving
- 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…
- I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then…
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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe