All John Irving Quotes
- But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to… Beings
- 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… Everything S
- But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people. Busy
- …there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time. Compare
- 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… Accomplished
- …there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old… Four
- The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside… Asleep
- When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark. Burns
- In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they… Always Someone
- 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… Accumulate
- 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… Bus
- In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases According
- Keep passing the open windows. Keep Passing
- The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other.… Affection
- All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man. All
- 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… All
- It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. Art
- Life is serious but art is fun! Art
- I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever… Believe
- Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to… Behave
- If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good.… All
- Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we… Beings
- In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of… Add
- Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England. England
- Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.. Anticlimax