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My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons. ↗

— John Irving

#match #old #reasons #say #trophies

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him. ↗

— John Irving

#adult #am #anything #could #cousin

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#day #keep #me #mind #open

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep. ↗

— John Irving

#child #few #few things #real #real world

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

— John Irving

#constantly #necessity #no reason #reason #revise

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ↗

— Washington Irving

#above #great minds #little #little minds #minds

Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not. ↗

— LL Cool J

#position #right #right thing #sometimes #the right thing

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ↗

— Washington Irving

#history #life #life is a #whole #woman

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. ↗

— Washington Irving

#blaming #down #easiest #easiest thing #fail

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. ↗

— Washington Irving

#am #believe #how #i #i am