Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
JOHN IRVINGMy brain is sending poison to my heart.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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You don’t want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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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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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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In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
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There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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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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