Quote by John Irving
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is

The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of. – John Irving

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I suppose Im proudest of my novels for whats 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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Imagination
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If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. – John Irving

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Courage
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I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave – and nothing but laughter to console them with. – John Irving

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Sympathy
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Other Quotes from
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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. – Alvar Aalto

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architecture

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. – Thom Mayne

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architecture

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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architecture

My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after Im gone. – Julia Morgan

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architecture

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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. – Marcel Proust

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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year. – Fred A. Allen

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Fashion

I suppose Im intrigued with the bad traits of society, because Im a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future. – Jude Law

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Future

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. – Otto von Bismarck

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