#over

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes. ↗

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. ↗

— John Irving

#casualties #i #i write #keep #looking

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

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. ↗

— Washington Irving

#deep #eloquently #grief #love #mark

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

#brood #cherish #consider #dead #divorced

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

#default #fact #government #inside #journalists

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. ↗

— Washington Irving

#dead #effect #elevate #mind #natural

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#allowed #australia #disaster #government #i

I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#balance #covering #i #i think #important

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. ↗