If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
JOHN IRVING…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
More John Irving Quotes
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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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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I 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.
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What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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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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You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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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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Keep passing the open windows.
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My life is a reading list.
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No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
JOHN IRVING