#v

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever. ↗

— David Irving

#i #qualifications #whatsoever

If he's dead, I'll never forgive you." I suddenly felt cold and frail and horrible numb. Jason's reply was so soft that I almost missed it." I wont forgive myself, either. ↗

— Kathleen Peacock

#forgiveness

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others. ↗

— Edward Irving

#grieves #hardness #heart #levity #manifest

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false. ↗

— Enya

#bit #carpet #events #false #glitzy

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. ↗

— John Irving

#building #craft #i #never #novel

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things. ↗

— John Irving

#almost #day #described #diary #drawing

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. ↗

— Washington Irving

#equable #gifts #good nature #heaven #inexhaustible

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#bachelors #breezes #like #never #pretend

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. ↗

— Washington Irving

#become #charm #distance #fades #fairy

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. ↗

— Washington Irving

#come #empty #end #hollow #keeping