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You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.

John Irving

I’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.
JOHN IRVING

Change More Patient Waiting
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
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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Stories Victim Writing
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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Children Moments Parent
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
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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Energy Father Grandmother
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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Beautiful Kids Men
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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Country Rewards Way
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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Musical Tennis Wrestling
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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Memorable Thinking Trying
You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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Hands Nice Squeezing
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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Adolescence Enough Like
All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.
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Judging Superiors Tolerance

You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.

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You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.

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