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.
JOHN IRVINGOur memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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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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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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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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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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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!
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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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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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
JOHN IRVING