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 someone's whole life.
John IrvingAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: March 2, 1942
Related Authors
Topics
Quotes currently Trending
![James Thurber quote: "In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of..."](/pic/230901/600x316/quotation-james-thurber-in-other-countries-art-and-literature-are-left.jpg)
![John Ruskin quote: "All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body..."](/pic/54687/600x316/quotation-john-ruskin-all-great-art-is-the-work-of-the-whole-living.jpg)
![Bob Dylan quote: "Sweet Goddess, born of a blinding light and a changing wind,..."](/pic/266681/600x316/quotation-bob-dylan-sweet-goddess-born-of-a-blinding-light-and-a.jpg)
Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.
Alice Hoffman
![Arabella Weir quote: "If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have..."](/pic/132586/600x316/quotation-arabella-weir-if-you-have-any-power-at-all-from-being-popular.jpg)
![Arthur Laffer quote: "The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only..."](/pic/68171/600x316/quotation-arthur-laffer-the-truth-of-the-matter-of-is-that-stimulus-money.jpg)
With a remainder of that brotherly compassion which is never totally absent from the heart of a drinker, Phoebus rolled Jehan with his foot onto one of those poor man's pillows which Providence provides on all the street corners of Paris and which the rich disdainfully refer to as heaps of garbage.
Victor Hugo