You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
JOHN IRVINGAs 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.
More John Irving Quotes
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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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