Quote by John Irving
I suppose Im proudest of my novels for whats imagined in them. I t

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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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 think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14… I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write. – John Irving

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Age
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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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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. – Milan Kundera

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Imagination

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Imagination

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. – Mason Cooley

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Imagination

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. – Pablo Picasso

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Imagination

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A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster. – Edward Esber

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Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government. – Rush Limbaugh

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Government

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. – Joseph Joubert

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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. – James Madison

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