All John Irving Quotes
- THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL… Anybody
- Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven Clothes
- Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors. Condescended
- He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences. Amount
- 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,… Enough Time
- My life is a reading list. Inspirational
- How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes. Eye
- It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change. Change
- Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their… Accident
- It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to… Any
- 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… Control
- so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no… Appear
- Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them. Alive
- Life is an X-rated soap opera. Life
- We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky,… Another Sometimes
- 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. Action
- Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind… Along
- He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against… Abortion
- 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… Believed
- 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… Amused
- They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. Awkward
- O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You. Asking
- 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… All
- when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble. Always Going
- Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that… Bottom