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
JOHN IRVINGThe 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.
More John Irving Quotes
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When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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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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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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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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When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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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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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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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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