141 quotes found
“My life is a reading list.”
“Keep passing the open windows.”
“Life is serious but art is fun!”
“Half my life is an act of revision.”
“The object of war is to survive it.”
“Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.”
“Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.”
“Its natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more ...”
“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”
“If you care about something you have to protect it If youre lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
“It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.”
“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
“In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me”
“In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases”
“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long timethe way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows a...”
“Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.”
“It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.”
“O God please give him back! I shall keep asking You.”
“When (The World According To) Garp was published, people whod lost children wrote to me. I lost one, too, they told me. I confessed to them that I hadnt lost any children. Im just a father with a g...”
“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 nih...”
“The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of...”
“Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.”
