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Quote by John Irving

“If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.”

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John Irving is an American novelist known for his intricate narrative structures and profound character development. His works often explore themes of family, love, morality, and identity, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room—a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief; pitch-black and glabrous as a whale's back and burdened with all the passions of the tides, the memory of voyages beyond counting, the joys, the humiliations: the sea was screaming.”

Littles Long Joy Night Passion Black Memories Dark Rooms Grief Sea Cry Window Ships Tides Thirst Humiliation Horns Counting Voyages Boundless Whales Glitter Frenzy Nectar Conveying Pitch Black

Author:Yukio Mishima

“[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention.”

Names Views Air Development Consequence Intention Tone Plot Pens Indispensable Incidents Causation Denouement

Book:Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works

Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works

“A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.”

Whole Greater Thousand Miracle Plus

Book:The alphabet of grace

Source: The alphabet of grace

“Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--”

Moving Lost Left Behinds Repeats Left Behind Behind You

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Quote by John Irving

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