Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.
John IrvingI you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
John IrvingI will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
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So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother and someone’s older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them… That’s what happens, like it or not. And because that’s what happens, this is what we need: we need a good, smart bear… Coach Bob knew it all along: you’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows.
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Garp discovered that when you are writing something, everything seems related to everything else.
John IrvingStichwörter: writing
woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.
John IrvingMADE FOR TELEVISION.
John IrvingStichwörter: happy-playgrounds
Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news—the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everything on it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my other interests are consumed by it, and whatever appetites and capacities I may have had for detachment and reflection are suddenly subordinate to this cheeseburger in my life! I offer this as self-criticism; but what it means to be "political" is that you welcome these obsessions with cheeseburgers—at great cost to the rest of your life.
John IrvingStichwörter: politics newspapers junk-food cheeseburgers
She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.
John IrvingStichwörter: ruth-cole
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.
John IrvingStichwörter: ruth-cole
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