You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
JOHN IRVINGLife is serious but art is fun!
More John Irving Quotes
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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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.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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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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Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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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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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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