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  • John Irving Quote - Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
  • John Irving Quote - Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
  • John Irving Quote - Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
  • John Irving Quote - Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
  • John Irving Quote - Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable. Download This Image

    I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - 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.

    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.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, “I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure.” It doesn’t bother me if people feel that way.

    I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, “I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure.” It doesn’t bother me if people feel that way.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become. Download This Image

    I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - Life,” Garp wrote, “is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.

    Life,” Garp wrote, “is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you

    Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

    Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen. Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - You don’t want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.

    You don’t want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! Download This Image

    Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - I don’t begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.

    I don’t begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    JOHN IRVING
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    …every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind. Download This Image

    No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived. Download This Image

    It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand. Download This Image

    I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.

    JOHN IRVING