What did John Irving mean by: This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends. - John Irving Novelist Copy
+ My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me! Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Irving, Boys, Categories, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Irving, Revision, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently. Feraz Zeid, September 28, 2023December 26, 2023, John Irving, Practice, Promise, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. ‘Sorry,’ said the note. ‘Just not big enough. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Irving, Crazy, Sorry, Suicide, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ My life is a reading list. Feraz Zeid, July 31, 2023December 12, 2023, John Irving, Lists, Reading, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ And never forget, there is memory. Feraz Zeid, August 7, 2023December 12, 2023, John Irving, Forget, Memories, Never Forget, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Irving, End, Grows, Growth, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Irving, Belief, 0 - John Irving Novelist
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it’s not arrogant. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
