There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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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When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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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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I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
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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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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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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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This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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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.
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