Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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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People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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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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No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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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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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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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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If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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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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