Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
JOHN IRVINGAll I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.
More John Irving Quotes
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When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
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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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A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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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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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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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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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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