The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
JOHN IRVINGIn increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us — not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
More John Irving Quotes
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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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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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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A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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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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Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
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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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Life,” Garp wrote, “is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
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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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He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Whereas 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.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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