There’s nothing as scary as the future.
JOHN IRVINGIt is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
More John Irving Quotes
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He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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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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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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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
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I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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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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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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