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John Irving Quotes
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…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time (John Irving Quotes)
All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete (John Irving Quotes)
They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another (John Irving Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you (John Irving Quotes)
You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed (John Irving Quotes)
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences (John Irving Quotes)
When time passes, it’s the people who knew you whom you want to see; they’re the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what’s it matter what they did to you? (John Irving Quotes)
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes (John Irving Quotes)
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change (John Irving Quotes)
If you don’t feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn’t very vital (John Irving Quotes)
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met (John Irving Quotes)
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it (John Irving Quotes)
When however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble (John Irving Quotes)
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for? (John Irving Quotes)
Being afraid you’ll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything (John Irving Quotes)
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus (John Irving Quotes)
He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him (John Irving Quotes)
Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat (John Irving Quotes)
No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind (John Irving Quotes)
It’s because even a good man can’t always be right, that we need... rules (John Irving Quotes)
He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted (John Irving Quotes)
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived (John Irving Quotes)
No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen... You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move (John Irving Quotes)
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories (John Irving Quotes)
Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don’t mean that you can’t also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose (John Irving Quotes)
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace (John Irving Quotes)
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too (John Irving Quotes)
The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me (John Irving Quotes)
If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don’t think I’m very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life (John Irving Quotes)