In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
JOHN IRVINGA writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
More John Irving Quotes
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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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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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We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.
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When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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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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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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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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He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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