I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. "DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED," he said. "READING IS A GIFT." "I learned it from you," I told him. "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. 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 IrvingWhat 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 IrvingI've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.
John IrvingIf I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.
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