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John Irving
“Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.”
John Irving, The World According to Garp

John Irving
“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
John Irving, The World According to Garp

John Irving
“In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”
John Irving, The World According to Garp
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John Irving
“...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.”
John Irving, The World According to Garp

John Irving
“In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?”
John Irving, The World According to Garp

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