"If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything."

-- John Irving

#Want Quotes #Socialist Quotes

“Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we wonâ€™t be someone else.”
“Art is not a career - it's a life.”
“I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.”
“If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.”
“Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.”
“Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.”
“Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.”
“Don't talk to me about gravity. When I get out of bed in the morning, I have to be careful not to step on my breasts.”

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