My life is a reading list.
JOHN IRVINGWhereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
More John Irving Quotes
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You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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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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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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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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Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don’t mean that you can’t also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
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