John Irving Quotes

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

John Irving

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To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.

John Archibald Wheeler

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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Simone Weil

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Jonathan Swift

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I love to, you know, just inspire people however they wanna take it.

Desiigner

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I don't know what I would do without my smartphone as I am on the go all day.

Denise Van Outen

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I'm not old-fashioned.

Cher

Old-Fashioned

You put some things out there. Some work, some don't, and then one really takes off, and that pays for your failures. Then you go on to the next one.

Bobby Kotick

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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Anthony Trollope

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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

Anton Chekhov

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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

Wislawa Szymborska

LifeSandLastsFew

I did a movie a few years back, 'Medicine for Melancholy.' People will come up to me after a set and say, 'I really love that movie. When are you going to do another one?' Or 'I loved you on 'The Daily Show.' Why did you leave?' It's kind of the same as saying, 'I loved you in high school. You should have never left.'

Wyatt Cenac

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If we don't stop immigration - this torrent of immigrants coming in - we're not going to be America anymore because most of the people coming in have no experience with limited government. They don't know what that is.

Phyllis Schlafly

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