So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
JOHN IRVINGPeople are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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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.
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Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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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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People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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