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.
JOHN IRVINGTHERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
More John Irving Quotes
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Keep passing the open windows.
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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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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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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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A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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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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He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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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 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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Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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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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