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 IRVINGA part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
More John Irving Quotes
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Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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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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So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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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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There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
JOHN IRVING