It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
JOHN IRVINGYou don’t want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
More John Irving Quotes
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In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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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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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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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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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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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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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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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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