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Quotes About Insight

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.
~ John Howard Griffin
He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.
~ John Howard Griffin
A novelist is a doctor who sees only terminal cases.
~ John Irving
It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.
~ John Irving
Isn't it amazing? The Americans have so many good afterthoughts!
~ John Irving
It was from just a few sentences that a writer learned anything from another writer.
~ John Irving
Jack realized that when you're happy – especially when it's the first time in your life – you think of things that would never have occurred to you when you were unhappy.
~ John Irving
Meaning Michael Milton; meaning the whole thing.
~ John Irving
But you don't see with hindsight in a first draft. You have to finish the first draft to see what you've missed.
~ John Irving
Reading good novels can make young readers seem more experienced about relationships than they are.
~ John Irving
You're the biggest secret I know...The only way I know what's going on with you is the only way everyone else knows it. I just have to wait and read your next book.
~ John Irving
Then he looked only at me. "YOU'RE GETTING SMALLER, BUT I CAN STILL SEE YOU!" said Owen Meany. Then
~ John Irving
One can learn much through the thin walls of summer houses.
~ John Irving
YOU HAVE REALLY MISJUDGED THEM," he lectured me. "PERHAPS WHAT YOU CALL THEIR WILDNESS IS JUST A MATTER OF LACK OF DIRECTION. SOMEONE HAS TO GIVE ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE DIRECTION, YOU KNOW.
~ John Irving
Kai yra kur paganyti akis, atsiranda pla?ios perspektyvos ir sielai, <...>.
~ John Irving
WHY SHOULD SOMEONE WHO'S GOT SUCH A WORKED-OUT WAY OF SEEING THE WORLD BORE YOU? WHY SHOULDN'T YOU BE INTERESTED IN SOMEONE WHO'S WORKED OUT A WAY TO SEE THE WORLD? THAT'S WHAT MAKES WRITERS INTERESTING!
~ John Irving
But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!
~ John Jakes
Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn at no other.
~ John Jakes
But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!
~ John Jakes
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. —1 Corinthians 13:12
~ John Kay
Effective decision makers are distinguished not so much by the superior extent of their knowledge as by their being aware of its limitations.
~ John Kay
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
~ John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
~ John Keats
Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer
~ John Keats