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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography. ↗

— John Irving

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More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. ↗

— John Irving

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

— John Irving

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I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that. ↗

— Steve Irwin

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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. ↗

— Washington Irving

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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love. ↗

— Washington Irving

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

— LL Cool J

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The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government. ↗

— Ron Suskind

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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

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I've had it with you and your emotional constipation! ↗

— Washington Irving

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