In the sixties, dear Bill, we did not say 'top' and 'bottom' - we said 'pitcher' and 'catcher'...

John Irving

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God, I think I just hit a high E-flat - and I really held it!" Esmeralda said, after one of her more prolonged orgasms, but my ears were warm and sweaty, and my head had been held so tightly between her thighs that I hadn't heard anything.

John Irving

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I have digressed, which is also the kind of writer I would become.

John Irving

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Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his fiction sounds as much like a memoir as he can make it sound.

John Irving

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Why do you guys want to take all the mystery away? Isn't the mystery an exciting part of sex?

John Irving

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You know, it's not only writers who have this problem, but writers really, really have this problem; for us, a so-called train of thought, though unspoken, is unstoppable.

John Irving

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...where our desires "come from"; that is a dark, winding road.

John Irving

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...friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.

John Irving

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You should wait, William," Miss Frost said. "The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.

John Irving

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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

John Irving

Tags: loneliness self-hatred



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