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John Irving quotes

American Novelist, Writer March 2, 1942

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This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people—because, surely, Wally was nice—would say a host of critical things about someone to whom they would then be perfectly pleasant. At. St. Cloud's, criticism was plainer—and harder, if not impossible, to conceal. John Irving
John Irving quote: "but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and..."
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior. John Irving
Anne-Elisabeth had taken the music from Dr. Horvath and was looking through it. 'I see finger-cramping possibilities, William - lots of them,' she told him. I see music,' William said, winking at her. 'Lots of it. John Irving
Ruth thought of a novel as a great, untidy house, a disorderly mansion; her job was to make the place fit to live in, to give it at least the semblance of order. Only when she wrote was she unafraid. John Irving
Whatever you call them, they look like someone smashed a fly over the comma,” Ketchum said to Danny, about all the semicolons. “The only writing I do are letters to you and your dad, but I’ve written rather a lot of them, and in all those letters, I don’t believe I’ve ever used as many of those damn things as you use on any one fucking page of this novel.” “They’re called semicolons, Ketchum,” the writer said. John Irving
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses. John Irving
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything. John Irving
The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child. John Irving
John Irving quote: "O God? please give him back! I shall keep asking You."
O God? please give him back! I shall keep asking You. John Irving
John Irving quote: "woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil."
woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil. John Irving
It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination. John Irving
John Irving quote: "By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS..."
By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS than were killed in Vietnam. John Irving
I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye. John Irving
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us. John Irving
John Irving quote: "The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined..."
The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size. John Irving

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