THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
JOHN IRVINGI 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.
More John Irving Quotes
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
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There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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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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The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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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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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
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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.
JOHN IRVING