but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
JOHN IRVINGBut I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
More John Irving Quotes
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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Life is serious but art is fun!
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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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If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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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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You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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