No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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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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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 powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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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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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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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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So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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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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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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