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.
JOHN IRVINGA part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
More John Irving Quotes
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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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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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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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Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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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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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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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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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
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