"If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital."

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Source : "The Mindful Writer". Book by Dinty W. Moore, 2016.

John Irving

#Losing Quotes #Feels Quotes #Humiliating Quotes

“You have to have that emotional investment in the jokes that you're saying otherwise they actually don't work. You can say exactly the same thing, but if you don't believe it's funny at the time that you're saying it, it won't be.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.”
“The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.”
“When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.”
“I never really knew how to throw a football before,”
“I'm not really into religion.”
“For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.”
“In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to the subject's competence.”

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