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It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.
— Morton Irving Seiden
I do feel like a Clevelander. Every time, when people ask me, I automatically say, 'My home is Cleveland.'
— Kyrie Irving
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
— Washington Irving
Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.
— Irving Kristol
The incontrovertible evidence is that Hitler ordered on November 30, 1941, that there was to be 'no liquidation of the Jews.'
— David Irving
Every man must settle down once in a lifetime.
— Irving Stone
David Irving is not just a Fascist historian . He is also a great historian of Fascism .
— Christopher Hitchens
They who drink beer will think beer.
— Washington Irving
He smoked so much marijuana that his hair smelled like a cupboard crammed with oregano;
— John Irving
Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
— Irving Kirsch
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 you put in the colour.
— John Irving
Meaning Michael Milton; meaning the whole thing.
— John Irving
Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.
— Kyrie Irving
Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him completely by surprise.
— John Irving
Once again, Jack reached for her hand. It was the only thing he knew how to do. As it would turn out, it was about the only thing he reall knew.
— John Irving
We do not live in a world of things
but among benedictions given
and--do you know what I'm saying?--received. — Irving Feldman
but among benedictions given
and--do you know what I'm saying?--received. — Irving Feldman
I shared my grandmother's distaste for the word rector - it sounded too much like rectum to be taken seriously.
— John Irving
Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
— John Irving
Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
— Irving Berlin
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
— Washington Irving
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
— Irving Babbitt
There's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking.
— Irving Sandler
The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.
— Washington Irving
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.
— Washington Irving
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.
— John Irving
But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?
— Washington Irving
Lupe's language is just a little different," Juan Diego was saying. "I can understand it.
— John Irving
All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix.
— Kyrie Irving
Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers - or to anyone who believes in *pure* good, or in pure evil.
— John Irving
David Copperfield.
— John Irving
What is this fascination the world has with death?
— John Irving
I'm probably one of the most competitive people ever.
— Kyrie Irving
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.
— John Irving
If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.
— John Irving
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
— Irving Stone
Bonkie bit Garp!"
Garp bit Bonkie — John Irving
Garp bit Bonkie — John Irving
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
— Irving Penn
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
— Irving Layton
Perhaps you could not find such godless, such ruthless and such materialist people as clergy.
— Irving Stone
Too young for woe, though not for tears.
— Washington Irving
If it isn't for the writing, we've got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.
— Irving Thalberg
That horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
— Irving Stone
If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart.
— Irving Pichel
Melville's Moby-Dick -
— John Irving
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
— Jeff Bridges
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
— Irving Wallace
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
— Irving Stone
The Nazis quite clearly killed millions of Jews
— David Irving
Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
— Irving Thalberg
When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots.
— Kyrie Irving
DON'T GIVE ME THE SHIVERS,' Owen said.
— John Irving
It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.
— Irving Townsend
That's what I love about boys," Marion told him. "No matter what, you just go about your business.
— John Irving
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.
— John Irving
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
— Washington Irving
The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
— John Irving
My eventual goal is to win a championship. And before I retire, I just want to win a championship. That's it.
— Kyrie Irving
Garp didn't want a daughter because of men. Because of bad men, certainly; but even, he thought, because of men like me.
— John Irving
John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'
— Tom Robbins
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
— John Irving
You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
— John Irving
Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
— John Irving
We've been an empire in decline since I can remember," Ketchum said bluntly; he wasn't kidding. "We are a lost nation, Danny. Stop farting around.
— John Irving
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
— Irving Layton
Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith's opposite.
— John Irving
Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did
— Irving Kahn
The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods
— Irving Kristol
You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love ... -p. 131
— Irving Stone
A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.
— Irving Bacheller
Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
— Irving Stone
Do not forget the past; forgive the past.
— John Irving
It's rare when there's something we can do for ourselves which also pleases someone else.
— John Irving
THE BRITISH NEVER WATCH BASEBALL!
— John Irving
I don't want to not be important.
— Irving Azoff