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 IRVINGThe 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.
More John Irving Quotes
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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My life is a reading list.
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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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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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No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
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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.
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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