I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
JOHN IRVINGbut good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
More John Irving Quotes
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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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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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Life is serious but art is fun!
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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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You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
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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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Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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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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There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
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