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I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.

John Irving

THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
JOHN IRVING

Dumb Monkeys Voters
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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Another Day Religious
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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Stories Victim Writing
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
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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Exercise Sex Sleep Writing
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
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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Enough Smart Writing
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Jobs Memories Writing
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
JOHN IRVING

Imagination Interesting Thinking
You don’t want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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Character Giving People
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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Mean People Religious
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
JOHN IRVING

Answers People Ready

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