Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
JOHN IRVINGWhat has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
More John Irving Quotes
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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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.
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He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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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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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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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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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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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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My life is a reading list.
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You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
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