Zitate von John Irving
John Irving
Geburtstag: 2. März 1942
Andere Namen: Irving
John Winslow Irving ist ein US-amerikanisch-kanadischer Schriftsteller.
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„The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.“
— John Irving, buch A Son of the Circus
Quelle: A Son of the Circus
„Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean—make sure they know what they mean!“
— John Irving, buch Owen Meany
Quelle: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

„It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.“
— John Irving, buch The Hotel New Hampshire
Quelle: The Hotel New Hampshire
„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, buch Garp und wie er die Welt sah
Quelle: The World According to Garp
„The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.“
— John Irving, buch Owen Meany
Quelle: A Prayer for Owen Meany
„“People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.”“
— John Irving, buch The Cider House Rules
Variante: People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
Quelle: The Cider House Rules
„If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.“
— John Irving, buch Owen Meany
Quelle: A Prayer for Owen Meany
„You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.“
— John Irving, buch The Hotel New Hampshire
Quelle: The Hotel New Hampshire, ch. 11
„What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.“
— John Irving, buch The Cider House Rules
Quelle: The Cider House Rules
„In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.“
— John Irving, buch The Hotel New Hampshire
The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), ch. 6
Kontext: 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.
„They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.“
— John Irving, buch Garp und wie er die Welt sah
Quelle: The World According to Garp