They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
JOHN IRVINGJust when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
More John Irving Quotes
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Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.
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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Life,” Garp wrote, “is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
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Life is serious but art is fun!
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
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Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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