You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
JOHN IRVINGThe lie, of course, is more interesting.
More John Irving Quotes
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Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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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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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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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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My life is a reading list.
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I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
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He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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You don’t want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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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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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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