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!
JOHN IRVINGI’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.
More John Irving Quotes
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Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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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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He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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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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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don’t mean that you can’t also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.
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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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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 always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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