Life,” Garp wrote, “is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
JOHN IRVINGA sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
More John Irving Quotes
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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 certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
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You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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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 am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Life is serious but art is fun!
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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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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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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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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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