What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
JOHN IRVINGI have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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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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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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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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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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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