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Only Quotes by John Irving
- I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens.…
- No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years…
- Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be…
- … but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.
- The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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.…
- People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
- 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…
- You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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