If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
JOHN IRVINGThere’s nothing as scary as the future.
More John Irving Quotes
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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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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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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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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.
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Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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My life is a reading list.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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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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