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Way Quotes by John Irving
- 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…
- So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm writing that book…
- If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
- Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having…
- Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,” Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.” Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who…
- The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
- But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to…
- When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long…
- The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way…
- It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the…
- I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. "DON'T SOUND…
- Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.
- And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the…
- If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to…
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