Garp Quotes
9 quotes by 1 authors
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
— John Irving
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Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to…
— John Irving
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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.…
— John Irving
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Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax..
— John Irving
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In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals,…
— John Irving
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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…
— John Irving
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
— John Irving
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Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a…
— John Irving
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Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who…
— John Irving
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