There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
JOHN IRVINGPeople are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
More John Irving Quotes
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You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
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No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
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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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In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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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.
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I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
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There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
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If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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