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"I am very grateful for all the opportunities life has given me."
"My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life."
"The spirit of life, the spirit of peace."
"If have nothing but life, I have everything."
Explore more quotes by John Irving
"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."
"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."
"There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly."
"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."
"The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of."
"Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."
"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."
"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."
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