but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
John IrvingTags: friends
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
John IrvingTags: humor life-lessons wrestling
You'd better leave your chromosomes at the door.
John IrvingIsn't it amazing? The Americans have so many good afterthoughts!
John IrvingTags: americans
Lemties neįmanoma įžvelgti, nebent jei sapnuoji ar esi apsvaigęs iš meilės.
John IrvingIn our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they’re foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity.
John IrvingTags: compassion lonliness social-anxiety
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 IrvingTags: reading relationships
in the hospital, Jenny Fields felt she was making up for lost time; she was discovering that people weren't much more mysterious, or much more attractive, than clams.
John IrvingIf you're God's instrument, Owen," I said, "how come you need my help to stuff a basketball?
John IrvingYou 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 IrvingTags: life friends lesson love learning
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