Quotes by John Irving, The World According to Garp

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In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think ther — John Irving, The World According to Garp
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases — John Irving, The World According to Garp
When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told — John Irving, The World According to Garp
Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are me — John Irving, The World According to Garp
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What w — John Irving, The World According to Garp
Well, you finally got me," Helen had whispered to him, tearfully, but Garp had sprawled there, on his back on the wrestl — John Irving, The World According to Garp
She felt if she ever had children she would love them no less when they were twenty than when they were two; they might — John Irving, The World According to Garp
Garp didn't want a daughter because of men. Because of bad men, certainly; but even, he thought, because of men like me. — John Irving, The World According to Garp
As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-call — John Irving, The World According to Garp
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. — John Irving, The World According to Garp
...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something. — John Irving, The World According to Garp
...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar. — John Irving, The World According to Garp
Unlike Alice, Garp was a real writer —not because he wrote more beautifully than she wrote but because he knew what ever — John Irving, The World According to Garp
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequ — John Irving, The World According to Garp
As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious decisions about the c — John Irving, The World According to Garp