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John Irving
“You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life”
John Irving, The World According to Garp

John Irving
“but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.”
John Irving, The World According to Garp

John Irving
“The 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 Irving, The World According to Garp

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
“She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.”
John Irving, The World According to Garp

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