There’s nothing as scary as the future.
JOHN IRVINGThe gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
More John Irving Quotes
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People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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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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You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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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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There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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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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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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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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