Keep passing the open windows.
JOHN IRVINGAll 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.
More John Irving Quotes
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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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…I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
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No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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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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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 writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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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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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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