I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, “I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure.” It doesn’t bother me if people feel that way.
JOHN IRVINGThe lie, of course, is more interesting.
More John Irving Quotes
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I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it – rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.
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There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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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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My life is a reading list.
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Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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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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The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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