Quotes from book

The World According to Garp

“In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”

“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”

“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”

“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”

“All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.”

“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.”

“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”

“Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.”

“Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

“He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you."”

“Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory.”