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.
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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…I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
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…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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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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I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
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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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If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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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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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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