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 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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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.
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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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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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There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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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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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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What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Life is serious but art is fun!
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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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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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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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don’t mean that you can’t also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.
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A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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