…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
JOHN IRVINGIf you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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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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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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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.
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Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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