They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
JOHN IRVINGI will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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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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It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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Life is serious but art is fun!
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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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So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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And 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.
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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