Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
JOHN IRVINGWhereas 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.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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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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When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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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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You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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My life is a reading list.
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