Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
JOHN IRVINGMy brain is sending poison to my heart.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
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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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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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The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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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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In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us — not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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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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Keep passing the open windows.
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Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
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Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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