My life is a reading list.
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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Life is serious but art is fun!
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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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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.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Keep passing the open windows.
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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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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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