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  • John Irving Quote - 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.
  • John Irving Quote - 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.
  • John Irving Quote - 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.
  • John Irving Quote - 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.
  • John Irving Quote - 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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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.

    The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it – rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.

    When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it – rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something. Download This Image

    Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - 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.” Download This Image

    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.”

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.

    Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people. Download This Image

    But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - My brain is sending poison to my heart. Download This Image

    My brain is sending poison to my heart.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.

    I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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 IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - …there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus. Download This Image

    …there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - 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.

    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.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - 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.

    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.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

    You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - 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.

    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.

    JOHN IRVING