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The lie of course is more interesting. John Irving#Lie 41
John Irving#Lie 41
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. John Irving#Authors 39
John Irving#Authors 39
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep. John Irving#Asleep 34
John Irving#Asleep 34
Half my life is an act of revision. John Irving#Life 32
John Irving#Life 32
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. John Irving#Family 32
John Irving#Family 32
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us. John Irving#Shakespeare 26
John Irving#Shakespeare 26
In increments both measurable and not our childhood is stolen from us not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies which add up to the same loss. John Irving#Growing up 26
John Irving#Growing up 26
Your memory is a monster you forget it doesnt. It simply files things away it keeps things for you or hides things from you. Your memory summons things to your recall with a will of its own. You imagine you have a memory but your memory has you John Irving#Memory 25
John Irving#Memory 25
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. John Irving#Behave 25
John Irving#Behave 25
A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy John Irving#Women 25
John Irving#Women 25
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