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“Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Sorrow floats.”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.”

John Irving book Until I Find You

Source: Until I Find You (2005), ch. 25, p. 493

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

John Irving book A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year

“We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.”

John Irving book Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

“He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”

“O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“We are formed by what we desire”

John Irving In One Person

Source: In One Person

“Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.”

John Irving book The World According to Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

“It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.”

John Irving book A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year

“It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

“When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.”

John Irving book Until I Find You

Source: Until I Find You

“If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?”

Source: My Movie Business: A Memoir