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You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality. ↗

— Amy Irving

#brazilians #comfortable #face #feel #food

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

#files #forget #hides #keeps #memory

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. ↗

— John Irving

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I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#desire #develop #grow #i #improvement

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you. ↗

— John Irving

#begin #connections #first #i #important

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. ↗

— Washington Irving

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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ↗

— Washington Irving

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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. ↗

— Washington Irving

#dead #effect #elevate #mind #natural

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve. ↗

— Bindi Irwin

#company #daddy #i #mine #mining

My Dad was such an incredible person, and you have the option of just curling up in a dark corner and letting it all go or you have the option of standing strong, sticking together and carrying on what he lived and died for. And I think that's what's so important - to be able to carry on where he left off. ↗

— Bindi Irwin

#carry #carrying #corner #curling #dad