All John Irving Quotes
- If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves. Become Caricatures
- Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie. Cookie
- Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole. Asshole
- In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for? Book
- He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson Arrange
- Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything. Afraid
- 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… Ageless
- …there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus. Found
- I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.’… All
- 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… Abundance
- 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… Adventure
- Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life! Down
- Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat. Big
- The lie, of course, is more interesting. Course
- but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior. Behavior
- No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind. Chiefly
- (Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action Action
- No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,” Barb… Appellation
- Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t… Any
- If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin. Greatest
- It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules. Good
- YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET… Already Dead
- . . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . . Alert
- He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted. Came
- All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them -… All