It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
JOHN IRVINGAnd when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
More John Irving Quotes
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
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You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, “I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure.” It doesn’t bother me if people feel that way.
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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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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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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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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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