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.
JOHN IRVINGTHERE’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!
More John Irving Quotes
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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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There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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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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I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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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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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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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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