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In One Person QUOTES

In One Person QUOTES

1 " Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true. "

― John Irving , In One Person

2 " It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something. "

― John Irving , In One Person

3 " The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences. "

― John Irving , In One Person

4 " Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy. "

― John Irving , In One Person

5 " You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them. "

― John Irving , In One Person

6 " Self-hatred is worse than loneliness. "

― John Irving , In One Person

7 " According to my mother, I was a fiction writer before I'd written any ficton, by wich she meant not only that I invented things, or made things up, but that I prefered this kind of fantasising or pure imagining to what other people generally liked - she meant reality, of course. "

― John Irving , In One Person

8 " Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you-they can't turn you away. "

― John Irving , In One Person

9 " I'll bet every fucking one of your angels is going to be terrifying! "

― John Irving , In One Person

10 " Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us. "

― John Irving , In One Person

11 " Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they? "

― John Irving , In One Person

12 " I won’t pretend that it wasn’t gratifying to hear this, but I would rather have heard it privately; it wasn’t something I wanted to share with Tom Atkins. "

― John Irving , In One Person

13 " (You shouldn’t guess about someone’s past; if you don’t see any evidence of it, a person’s past remains unknown to you.) "

― John Irving , In One Person

14 " Richard Abbott, who I thought knew everything, answered: “I don’t know, exactly. "

― John Irving , In One Person

15 " Don’t forget: Miss Frost was an older woman, and that goes a long way with boys—even if the older woman has a penis! "

― John Irving , In One Person

16 " Don’t worry, Bill,” Borkman told me. “I have Muriel and Richard in my pocket-back!” “In your back pocket—yes,” I said to the crafty deerstalker on skis. "

― John Irving , In One Person

17 " Good evening, knocked-up faculty daughter. How are you managing now, you smelly little slut? "

― John Irving , In One Person

18 " In addition to suffering her husband’s scathing portrayal of a shrewish wife and mother, Nana Victoria had to sit not more than two seats away from the transsexual wrestler!) "

― John Irving , In One Person

19 " I saw an oxygen tank in the cluttered room—what had been Atkins’s “study,” as his son had explained, now converted for a deathwatch. "

― John Irving , In One Person

20 " This prevented Elaine from making up any stories about whomever I was seeing at the time, man or woman. Therefore, no one was falsely accused of shitting in the bed. "

― John Irving , In One Person