John Irving

STATUS QUOtes — 20221027

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.” — John Steinbeck

“You’ve been paid for by people who never even saw your face. Your mother’s mother, your father’s father. And so it behooves you to prepare yourself so you can pay for someone else yet to come. Whose name you’ll never know. You just keep the good thing going.” — Maya Angelou

“You don’t get to choose your obsessions; your obsessions choose you.” — John Irving

“When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do – well, that’s Memoirs.” — Will Rogers

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20171029

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“By the work one knows the workman.” — Jean de La Fontaine

“There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.” — John Irving

“It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration — nay, it is a very easy matter — but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.” — Plutarch

“The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.” — Roseanne Barr

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170920

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“When a man’s temper gets the best of him, it reveals the worst of him.” — Vikrant Parsai

“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.” — Margaret Mead

“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” — John Irving

“You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry’s favorite horse was named Champion. He ain’t ever had one called Runner Up.” — Gene Mauch, American baseball player & manager

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20161120

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“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” — Ray Bradbury

“To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.” — John Irving

“I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn’t get better. YOU get better.” — Joan Rivers

“I had an out a body experience once and when I returned someone else was there.” — Tom Zegan 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160715

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“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” — Vladimir Nabokov

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” — Willa Cather

“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 a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!” — John Irving

“Seven months ago I could give a single command and 541,000 people would immediately obey it; today I can’t get a plumber to come to my house.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

 

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