Quotes
Authors
John Irving

"In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if theyâ€™re foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity."

-- John Irving

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“Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.”
“And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.”
“For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we'd eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we'd save some of the dessert and play with it while making out.”
“The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.”
“Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.”

Source : "God in the Machine". "Antiquity", Volume 41, Issue 163, p. 174, September 1967.
“We mourn; we sorrow for our loved ones that go - our wives, our husbands, our children, our parents; we sorrow for them; and it is well and proper that we should moum for them and shed tears for the loss, for it is our loss; but it is their gain, for it is in the march of progress, advancement and development. It will be all right when our time comes, when we have finished our work and accomplished what the Lord required of us.”
“A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.”
“If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.”

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