Cases Quote by John Irving

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.

— Tom Waits

“A novelist is a doctor who sees only terminal cases.”

— John Irving

“When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed…

— John Irving

Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon…

— John Lithgow

I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up book that…

— Glen Duncan

From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a…

— Anthony Marra

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of…

— Alexander Cockburn

But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm…

— Sheri Fink

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be…

— Mitch Albom

Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.

— Chris Crutcher

A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll…

— J. G. Ballard