He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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More John Irving Quotes
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There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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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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…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
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If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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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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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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A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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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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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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… 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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Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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