John Irving Quotes

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

If you feel so strongly about what’s on television, don’t have one.

Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.