John Irving Famous Quotes



"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.


John Irving Quotations






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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank

"Always question. Always analyze. But in the end, suspend judgment until you've been there. Live it to learn it."
Mark McClinchie

"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty."
Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."
Al Franken

"When you die, if you go somewhere where they ask you a bunch of questions about your life and what you learned and all, I think a good way to get out of it is just to say, 'No speaka English.'"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
May Sarton

Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Christiane M D Northrup

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
Honore de Balzac

"Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future."
Unknown

"Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny."
Eric Hoffer