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John Irving Quotes

John Irving quotes

American Novelist, Writer March 2, 1942

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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
Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory. John Irving
It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive. John Irving
That was when Angel Wells became a fiction writer, whether he knew it or not. That's when he learned how to make the make-believe matter to him more than real life mattered to him; that's when he learned how to paint a picture that was not real and never would be real, but in order to be believed at all- even on a sunny Indian summer day- it had to be better made and seem more real than real; it had to sound at least possible. John Irving
It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession of her life that only the most confident men could continue to look at her if she looked back at them. Even in bus stations, she was a woman who was stared at only until she looked back. John Irving
John Irving quote: "It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious."
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. John Irving
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

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