It’s a no-win argument – that business of what we’re born with and what our environment does to us. And it’s a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
JOHN IRVINGThus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
More John Irving Quotes
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We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.
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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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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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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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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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Life is serious but art is fun!
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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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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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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
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Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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