Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
JOHN IRVINGIt is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
More John Irving Quotes
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People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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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.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.
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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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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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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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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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Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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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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Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
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