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John Irving Quotes

John Irving quotes about life

American Novelist, Writer March 2, 1942

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What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? John Irving
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life John Irving
I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the equivalent of photographs in one's imagination of anyone's life. A whole life, I mean. I can picture her when she was much younger than I am - because there are always gestures and expressions that are ingrained, ageless. An old woman doesn't see herself as an old woman, and neither do I. I try to see her her whole life in her. There's something so moving about... John Irving
John Irving quote: "don't worry - so what if there is no life after death? There..."
don't worry - so what if there is no life after death? There is life after Garp, believe me. John Irving
John Irving quote: "Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down..."
Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life! John Irving
John Irving quote: "Life is serious but art is fun!"
Life is serious but art is fun! John Irving
More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. John Irving
When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things. John Irving
John Irving quote: "the demands of writing and of real life are not always..."
...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar. John Irving
John Irving quote: "My life is a reading list."
My life is a reading list. John Irving
Homer Wells, listening to Big Dot Taft, felt like her voice – dulled. Wally was away, Candy was away, and the anatomy of a rabbit was, after Clara, no challenge; the migrants, whom he’d so eagerly anticipated, were just plain hard workers; life was just a job. He had grown up without noticing when? Was there nothing remarkable in the transition? John Irving
John Irving quote: "and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr...."
and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. John Irving
John Irving quote: "No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was..."
No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind. John Irving
John Irving quote: "Half my life is an act of revision."
Half my life is an act of revision. John Irving
John Irving quote: "Life is an X-rated soap opera."
Life is an X-rated soap opera. John Irving

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