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John Irving Quotes

John Irving quotes about love

American Novelist, Writer March 2, 1942

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When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time-the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes-when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever-there comes another day, and another specifically missing part. John Irving
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don''t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time. John Irving
Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar. John Irving
John Irving quote: "That’s what I love about boys,” Marion told him. “No matter..."
That’s what I love about boys,” Marion told him. “No matter what, you just go about your business. John Irving
Some producer actually told Franny that profanity revealed a poor vocabulary and a lack of imagination. And Frank and Lilly and Father and I all loved to shout at Franny, then, and ask her what she had said to that. 'What an anal crock of shit, you dumb asshole!' she'd told the producer. 'Up yours - and in your ear, too! John Irving
John Irving quote: "How we love to love things for other people; how we love to..."
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes. John Irving
Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be involved in the thrilling real-life sleaziness that we suspected Hester was in the thick-of. We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love. John Irving
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly. John Irving
Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love. John Irving
John Irving quote: "Did anyone who was in love and was unsatisfied with how he was..."
Did anyone who was in love and was unsatisfied with how he was loved in return ever feel saved? John Irving
John Irving quote: "there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to..."
there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus. John Irving
John Irving quote: "Love was certainly not safe - not ever."
Love was certainly not safe - not ever. John Irving
John Irving quote: "You know what I love... everything."
You know what I love... everything. John Irving
John Irving quote: "If you presume to love something, you must love the process of..."
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product. John Irving
John Irving quote: "If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?"
If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind? John Irving

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