As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
JOHN IRVING…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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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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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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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.
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A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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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.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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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.
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He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
JOHN IRVING