John Irving quotes

If you care about something you have to protect it - If you're lucky enough to find a way of life …If you care about something you have to protect it - If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Courage

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most …What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

Time

It is hard work and great art to make life not so …It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

Art Work Short Life

You've got to get obsessed and stay …You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Humor Life lessons

Your memory is a monster; you forget-it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for …Your memory is a monster; you forget-it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you-and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Memory

My life is a reading …My life is a reading list.

Short Life Reading

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see …We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

Mistake Perspective Short

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each …They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

Keep passing the open …Keep passing the open windows.

Perseverance Short



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