What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
JOHN IRVINGYou 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
More John Irving Quotes
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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…I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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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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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
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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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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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My life is a reading list.
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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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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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