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Thinking Quotes by John Irving
- I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting…
- You think you have a memory; but it has you!
- If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the…
- Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you.
- I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a…
- I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old…
- Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you…
- You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else.…
- The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
- But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
- 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…
- 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…
- Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you
- I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he…
- 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…
- 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…
- Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
- 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…
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