O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
JOHN IRVINGIt is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
More John Irving Quotes
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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.
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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 is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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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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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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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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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!
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No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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