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What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.

John Irving

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
JOHN IRVING

Awkward Procedures Regret
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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Sunday Teenage Years
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.
JOHN IRVING

Beautiful Kids Men
The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
JOHN IRVING

Architecture Crafts Writing
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
JOHN IRVING

Character Differences Important
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
My life is a reading list.
JOHN IRVING

Life Lists Reading
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
JOHN IRVING

Art Hard Work Serious
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
JOHN IRVING

Dying Finding Student Yourself
THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
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Dumb Monkeys Voters
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
JOHN IRVING

Hatred Loneliness Self
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
JOHN IRVING

Feet Knows Needs
I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
JOHN IRVING

Imagination Interesting Thinking
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
JOHN IRVING

Hair Ocean Powerful
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
JOHN IRVING

Practice Religious Two

What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.

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