Life,” Garp wrote, “is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
JOHN IRVINGIt’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
More John Irving Quotes
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You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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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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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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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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The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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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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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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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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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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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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The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
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It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
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This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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