It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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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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You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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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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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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