"We are formed by what we desire"

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Source : John Irving, Carol Anshaw, Chris Cleave, Vaddey Ratner, Enid Shomer (2012). “Simon & Schuster 2012 Fiction Sampler”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

John Irving

“There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.”
“Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“People can tell what's in beer, eh? Like my brother can tell the difference between beers by what his burps taste like.”
“Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”
“In life, we have either reasons or results”
“My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.”
“In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger -- a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...”
“Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.”

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