697 Quotes by John Irving


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    …there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

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    To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

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    It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

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    I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.

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    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 - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

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    Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

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