But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
JOHN IRVINGIf we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
More John Irving Quotes
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us — not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
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You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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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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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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You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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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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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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I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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