Imagining something is better than remembering something.
John IrvingIf watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.
John IrvingNever confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.
John IrvingHe also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
John IrvingIf you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?
John IrvingYou're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
John IrvingA woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.
John IrvingThe history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever; a writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories.
John IrvingAmong adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
John IrvingThe powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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