Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 21 quotes from The World According to Garp book by John Irving that I liked and saved while reading this book. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Quotes on Life
- Life is an X-rated soap opera.
- Life, is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead, an ending occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that’s left is memory.
Other Quotes
- In this dirty-minded world, you are either somebody’s wife or somebody’s whore – or fast on your way to becoming one or the other. If you don’t fit either category, then everyone tries to make you think there is something wrong with you.
- A wrestler loves nothing so much as hard-earned exhaustion.
- A part of adolescence is feeling that there’s no one else around who’s enough like yourself to understand you.
- Everything is surmountable if we have energy. We can learn anything we can set our minds to!
- Lust makes the best of men behave out of character.
- I was trained to be a nurse. Nursing was the first thing I took to, and the first thing I ever wanted to do. It simply seemed very practical, to me, for someone who was healthy – and I have always been healthy – to help people who weren’t healthy or who couldn’t help themselves.
- There is no smell like sex. You cannot disguise it. It is as rich and clear as spilled beer.
- You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
- If you are careful, 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.
- Art doesn’t help anyone. People can’t really use it: they can’t eat it, it won’t shelter or clothe them – and if they’re sick, it won’t make them well.
- Well, husbands are funny. I don’t think many of them know what they want.
- Wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
- Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
- The police are always more interested in bothering the person who reports the crime than they are interested in bothering the criminals.
- In modern times, in my opinion, either everything is a moral question or there are no more moral questions. Nowadays, there are no compromises or there are only compromises.
- Death, it seems, does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
- Even if there is only death after death (after death), be grateful for small favors – sometimes there is birth after sex, for example. And, if you are very fortunate, sometimes there is sex after birth!
- I have always known that the pursuit of excellence is a lethal habit.
- Between men and women, only death is shared equally.