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The excitement of anticipation was almost equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

John Irving

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
JOHN IRVING

Sunday Teenage Years
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
JOHN IRVING

Die Dies Everybody
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
JOHN IRVING

Bears Practice Promise
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
JOHN IRVING

Exhausting Knows Seventeen
When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
JOHN IRVING

Enough Smart Writing
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
JOHN IRVING

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

Children Moments Parent
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
JOHN IRVING

Art Hard Work Serious
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.
JOHN IRVING

Civilization Perception Years
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.
JOHN IRVING

Anything Dead Remember Watched
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
JOHN IRVING

Imagine Remember Stories
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
JOHN IRVING

Believe Children Church
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
JOHN IRVING

Nervous Not Afraid People
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
JOHN IRVING

Cases Meany Owen World
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
JOHN IRVING

Character Differences Important
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
JOHN IRVING

Awkward Procedures Regret

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