Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
JOHN IRVINGbut good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
More John Irving Quotes
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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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 powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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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 also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
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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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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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