If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.
Keep passing the open windows. - John Irving
Keep passing the open windows.
- John Irving
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. - John Irving
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else. - John Irving
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived. - John Irving
It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.
We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. - John Irving
We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers. - John Irving
People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product. - John Irving
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing i… - John Irving
If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing i…
Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions. - John Irving
Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.
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