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John Irving quotes

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“If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.” John Irving, The Cider House Rules
“my life has been determinedly unexciting; my life is a reading list.” John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!” John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Between men and women . . . only death is shared equally. ” John Irving, The World According to Garp
“you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.” John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
“If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children.” John Irving, The Cider House Rules
“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time” John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.” John Irving, The World According to Garp

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A Prayer for Owen Meany (4)
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