Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
JOHN IRVINGA novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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My life is a reading list.
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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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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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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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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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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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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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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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 grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
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