"A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories."

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Source : John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

John Irving

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“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.”
“Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.”
“Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.”
“The world will not help, the people must help themselves. Its own strength is the source of life. That strength the Almighty has given us to use; that in it and through it, we may wage the battle of our life The others in the past years have not had the blessing of the Almighty - of Him who in the last resort, whatever man may do, holds in His hands the final decision. Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward”
“Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.”

Source : "At Home with 'Professor Pim'". Interview with Kirsty Lang, news.bbc.co.uk. May 04, 2002.
“In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.”
“I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!”
“A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.”

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