You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
JOHN IRVINGThe unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
More John Irving Quotes
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Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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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!
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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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