#y

Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend. ↗

— David Irving

#extent #friend #greatest #hitler #israel

I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form. ↗

— Edward Irving

#beginning #controversies #could #form #give

Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ? ↗

— Henry Irving

#heard #jesus #jesus christ #like #shakespeare

You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests. ↗

— Henry Irving

#everything #fancy #forth #into #intonation

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions. ↗

— John Irving

#i #multiple #poor #questions #record

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion. ↗

— John Irving

#i #real #real time #terms #time

It's an exhilarating play, and you come off tired, but thrilled. ↗

— Bill Irwin

#exhilarating #off #play #thrilled #tired

Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#art

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one. ↗

— John Irving

#book #critics #done #dwell #feel

Due to state laws, the restaurant was nonsmoking, which as a nonsmoker pleases me, but as a Libertarian it pisses me off.
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— Jarod Kintz

#big-brother #choice #freedom #law #laws