black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.

John Irving

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 IRVING

Ends Memories Nihilist
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
JOHN IRVING

Majority People Population
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
JOHN IRVING

Hatred Loneliness Self
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
JOHN IRVING

Condescend Inferiors People
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.
JOHN IRVING

Agendas Blind Presidential
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.
JOHN IRVING

Creative Maps Writing
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
JOHN IRVING

Memories Monsters Thinking
The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
JOHN IRVING

Dread Gardener Size
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
JOHN IRVING

Asking Giving Please
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
JOHN IRVING

Combat Comforting Loneliness
Keep passing the open windows.
JOHN IRVING

Depression Encouraging Life
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
JOHN IRVING

Minutes Way Writing
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
JOHN IRVING

Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
JOHN IRVING

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

Dying Finding Student Yourself
I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
JOHN IRVING

Change More Patient Waiting

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Irving Quotes