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Most men don't mind if another woman watches. It's the women who are watching who don't want to be seen. — John Irving

IF SOME PREACHER'S AN ASSHOLE, THAT'S NOT PROOF THAT GOD DOESN'T EXIST! (page 286) — John Irving

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. — Irving Kristol

It's not god who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in him and who claim to pursue their ends in his holy name. — John Irving

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules. — John Irving

It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it. — John Irving

Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it. — Irving Thalberg

There's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love. — John Irving

What woman wants to hear someone say what her husband is thinking? What guy is going to be happy hearing what's on his wife's mind? — John Irving

It's February the 22ndAnd I can't tell a lie. — Irving Berlin

My focus is basketball, and that's it. — Kyrie Irving

It's like reading a bad newspaper or a bad piece in a magazine.
(on Tom Wolfe) — John Irving

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly. — John Irving

Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. — John Irving

Wherever at least two art lovers meet, Vincent Van Gogh's name is holy. — Irving Stone

Many of Juan Diego's demons had been his childhood companions-he knew them so well, they were as familiar as friends. — John Irving

A part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you. — John Irving

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true. — John Irving

There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance. — Irving Berlin

No, it's never easier. The new book doesn't know the first four were ever written. — John Irving

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

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark. — John Irving

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies. — Irving Berlin

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there. — John Irving

There's no business like show business. — Irving Berlin

Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie. — Irving Berlin

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. — Washington Irving

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. — Washington Irving

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say. — Irving Berlin

It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets. — Washington Irving

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch. — Irving Paul Lazar

It's a fair wind that blew men to ale. — Washington Irving

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection. — Irving Babbitt

Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question. — Irving Kirsch

Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes. — Irving Stone

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

But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue? — Washington Irving

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down. — John Irving

Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he'd heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound - that's what he'd heard. — John Irving

Lupe's language is just a little different," Juan Diego was saying. "I can understand it. — John Irving

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. — Jeff Bridges

Have you ever been in love?"
"...in a way."
"It's always 'in a way. — Irving Stone

Melville's Moby-Dick - — John Irving

There's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking. — Irving Sandler

Inside yourself you're strong. That's the place where strength counts. Strength shows not only in how fast you can chop down trees.' -p. 5 — Irving Stone

That's actually happened?' Ruth asked.
'Everything's happened,' the prostitute said. — John Irving

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something. — John Irving

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another. — Irving Thalberg

You live your life at the time you live it
you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening. — John Irving

This is a writer's lesson:
To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all. — John Irving

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing. — Irving Stone

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night. — Edward Irving

I want to be on the cover of 'GQ.' That's a personal goal. — Kyrie Irving

Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith's opposite. — John Irving

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. — John Irving

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?"
"Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out. — Irving Stone

It's rare when there's something we can do for ourselves which also pleases someone else. — John Irving

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. — John Irving

There's nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn't in their books. It's better to read a good writer than meet one. — John Irving

A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot cause you can't get a man with a gun. — Irving Berlin

Let the grave mound grow a little grass, I always say; then it's safe to look. — John Irving

A woman's life is a history of the affections. — Washington Irving

Someone who hasn't read a novel doesn't really know what it's about, William. — John Irving

There's nothing as scary as the future. — John Irving

That's what I love about boys," Marion told him. "No matter what, you just go about your business. — John 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

I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday. — Cathy Guisewite

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded. — Amy Irving

I'll tell you what's wrong with dumb-shit patriotism
it's delusional! It signifies nothing but the American need to win — John Irving

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges. — Irving Kristol

It's as if you've been shot in the heart, Bill, but you're unaware of the hole or the loss of blood. I doubt you even heard the shot! — John Irving

No es buen momento para un terremoto," Lupe used to say. "It's not a good moment for an earthquake. — John Irving

In every life," Dolores had said, "I think there's always a moment when you must decide where you belong. — John Irving

(You shouldn't guess about someone's past; if you don't see any evidence of it, a person's past remains unknown to you.) — John Irving

As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar. — Douglas Brinkley

THERE'S NO NEED TO BE CRUDE,' said Owen Meany. — John Irving

You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who's leaping up and down on a bed. — John Irving

Let's face the music and dance. — Irving Berlin

That's okay," I said. "We're writers. We make things up. — John Irving

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories. — John Irving

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for. — Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. — Washington Irving

There is often a defining experience that marks any significant change in the course of a person's life. — John Irving

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

WHAT'S WRONG WITH BOTH OF THEM IS THAT THEY'RE SO SURE THEY'RE RIGHT! THAT'S PRETTY SCARY - THE — John Irving

You're not like anyone else, Billy - that's what's the matter with you, Donna said. — John Irving

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. — Irving R. Kaufman

It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original
for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did ... — Irving Sandler

Safer than we are." I told Franny. "Safer than love." "let me tell ya kid," Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. "Everything's safer than love. — John Irving

The day women stop reading - that's the day the novel dies! — John Irving

It's a dog eat dog world. But only if the second dog is more stupid than the first. — Washington Irving

I do have a chef, but I still go out. Sometimes I can still blend in, and sometimes I get a little bombarded. It's the best of both worlds. — Kyrie Irving

There's no people like show people. — Irving Berlin

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice. — Amy Irving

There's nothing so confusing as finding out that you don't know someone you thought you knew. — John Irving

When you're playing against a whole bunch of All-Stars, it's like a video game. There's so much talent on the floor at once. — Kyrie Irving

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer. — Irving Penn

If you're God's instrument, Owen," I said, "how come you need my help to stuff a basketball? — John Irving