Quotes with irving

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  • John Irving If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • John Irving If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
    The World According To Garp (2012) 605
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • John Irving If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • John Irving Imagining something is better than remembering something.
    The World According To Garp (2012)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Washington Irving In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • John Irving In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
    The World According To Garp (2012) 19
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • John Irving It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
    The Hotel New Hampshire (1986)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • John Irving It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • John Irving Keep passing the open windows.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • John Irving Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
    The World According To Garp (2012)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Irving Berlin Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
    Irving Berlin
    American composer and lyricist (1888 - 1989)
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  • John Irving Life is serious but art is fun!
    The Hotel New Hampshire (1986)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • John Irving 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 them.
    Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 248
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Washington Irving Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Washington Irving Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Washington Irving Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • John Irving My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!
    In One Person (2012) 189
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Irving Layton My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • John Irving Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.
    In One Person (2012) 260
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Irving Layton Progress of a marriage: ''There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.''
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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