February 2012
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“We take terrible risks with the natural affection of children.”
– John Irving, Until I Find You
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“I don’t think I’ve had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great...”
– John Irving
January 2012
29 posts
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“Tell me the context, baby cakes,” Emma used to say. “Everything...”
– John Irving, Until I Find You
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“…there’s more wrong with this country than we don’t read.”
– John Irving
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“So much of what you think you remember is a lie”
– John Irving, Until I Find You
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“President Bush made sounding stupid actually comforting to many Americans.”
– John Irving
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“It was the kind of night when you cut your losses and left.”
– John Irving, Until I Find You
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“A couple of summers ago, I gave a reading in Radio City Music Hall with Stephen...”
– John Irving
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“Magazines and television are cheap and constant alarm mechanisms.”
– John Irving
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“Garp has to die; it’s what the book is about, a double assassination of a...”
– John Irving, on the end of The World According to Garp.
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“It’s ironic to me that the three of my eleven published novels most taught...”
– John Irving, on his books being required reading in courses. The three to which he refers are A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Cider House Rules, and The World According to Garp.
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“‘Life is a call sheet,’ Emma wrote in The Slush-Pile Reader....”
– John Irving, Until I Find You
“My life is a reading list.”
– John Irving (via hersforthereading)
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“It was evident to him that one could not succeed as a player in life without...”
– John Irving, Until I Find You
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“Mrs. McQuat was a spectral presence. She’d mastered the art of the sudden...”
– John Irving, Until I Find You
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“It is an autobiographical shred, like a crumb from toast on a kitchen counter,...”
– John Irving on the theme of a missing parent, which occurs in many of his novels and was also a theme in his own life.
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“I never set out to write a political novel.”
– John Irving, on The Cider House Rules
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John Irving interview with Entertainment Weekly →
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“When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in...”
– John Irving, Until I Find You
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“I always thought so.”
– John Irving, in response to an audience member’s question of whether or not Johnny Wheelwright from A Prayer For Owen Meany is gay.
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“The public life of an accountant is generally conducted in clothes.”
– John Irving, Until I Find You
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“’I wish everyone spoke two or three languages and used them-all together. There...”
– John Irving, The 158-Pound Marriage.
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“Now science has seen to it that monstrous decisions don’t need popular support.”
– John Irving, Setting Free the Bears
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December 2011
4 posts
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“I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I...”
– John Irving
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“I read Charles Dickens when I was 14 or 15. It might be hard for many 14,...”
– John Irving, Los Angeles Times (via bookoasis)
The title In One Person comes from Shakespeare’s Richard II.
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September 2011
10 posts
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“I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.”
– John Irving
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“I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact....”
– John Irving
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“There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.”
– John Irving, A Widow for One Year
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“Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness...”
– John Irving, A Son of the Circus
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“No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life...”
– John Irving, A Son of the Circus
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“Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues...”
– John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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“You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies....”
– John Irving, The World According to Garp
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“He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and...”
– John Irving, The Cider House Rules
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“…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a...”
– John Irving, The Cider House Rules
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“‘Oh fuck “the longings and agonies of youth.”’”
– John Irving, The World According to Garp
August 2011
62 posts
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“Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.”
– John Irving, Last Night on Twisted River
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“If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.”
– John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River
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“Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit...”
– John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany
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“‘Life,’ Garp wrote, ‘is sadly not structured like a good...”
– John Irving, The World According to Garp
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“In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew we must have energy. Her...”
– John Irving, The World According to Garp