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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.

John Irving

People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
JOHN IRVING

Answers People Ready
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
JOHN IRVING

Dark Mom Mother
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
JOHN IRVING

Book Memories Tears
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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Decision Finals Unnecessarily
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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Book Long Writing
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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Children Moments Parent
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Centered Religion Self
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
JOHN IRVING

Cousin Father Years
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
JOHN IRVING

Husband Oxygen Thinking
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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Eyes Love People Things
No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
JOHN IRVING

Chiefly Lived Mind Mine
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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Agendas Blind Presidential
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
My life is a reading list.
JOHN IRVING

Life Lists Reading
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
JOHN IRVING

Minutes Way Writing

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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