There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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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It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
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My life is a reading list.
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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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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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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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 never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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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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The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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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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Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
JOHN IRVING