Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
JOHN IRVINGDon’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
More John Irving Quotes
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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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.
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No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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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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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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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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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Keep passing the open windows.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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