Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
JOHN IRVINGI never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
More John Irving Quotes
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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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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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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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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The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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