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.
JOHN IRVINGIt’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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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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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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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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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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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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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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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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It’s a no-win argument – that business of what we’re born with and what our environment does to us. And it’s a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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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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How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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