Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
JOHN IRVINGThere is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
More John Irving Quotes
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I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
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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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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Keep passing the open windows.
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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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I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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The 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.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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