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- John Irving: American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter
- Washington Irving: American writer
- Irving Layton: Canadian poet
- Irving Berlin: American composer and lyricist
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
The World According To Garp (2012) -
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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And never forget, there is memory.
The World According To Garp (2012) -
Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
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Half my life is an act of revision.
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.
A prayer for Owen Meany (1989) -
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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I've outdone anyone you can name: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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