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Words of wisdom. #JohnIrving #QuoteOftheDay
A quote of the day from John Irving
November 7, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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"Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England"

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November 4, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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#JohnIrving
Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world!
October 22, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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Homer in Wallys Zimmer wunderte sich, wie die Welt gleichzeitig erfunden und zerstört wurde. #johnirving #gotteswerkundteufelsbeitrag #theciderhouserules
October 18, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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“Life forces enough final decisions on us," Mrs. Oastler continued. "We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.”
--John Winslow Irving (1942- )
From “Until I Find You” (2005) Spoken by the character Leslie Oastler

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October 14, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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#TheLastChairlift is a #JohnIrving 800 pg tome which focuses on a ski instructor single mother & her son. Exploring ussues of sexual identity & politics, interesting people enter (and exit) their lives challenging the conventional norms of family, marriage & relationships.
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October 1, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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#JohnIrving returns to the orphanage of Cider House Rules in #QueenEsther - an orphaned Jewish girl whose life has been shaped by antisemitism. The story shifts to her son James as it explores other themes. Events from the middle east conflict shape the ending of the book.
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October 1, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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Knowing my desire to expand my fiction reading, a friend recommended John Irving's, A Widow for One Year. This is now my favorite Irving novel!

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September 24, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
—John Irving

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September 24, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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#writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #JohnIrving
September 16, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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After years of writing marketing content, I started writing #bookreviews to engage with my love of books, giving #recommendations based on what casual readers and writers would get out of it. Check out my thoughts on #theworldaccordingtogarp by #Johnirving
Book Review: “The World According to Garp” by John Irving
A Quick Note On This Review: This article includes affiliate links to Bookshop.org as a way of supporting both local bookshops and my own ability to write. The World According to Garp by John Irving…
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September 11, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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“Life forces enough final decisions on us," Mrs. Oastler continued. "We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.”
--John Winslow Irving (1942- )
From “Until I Find You” (2005) Spoken by the character Leslie Oastler
#life #authors #books #amwriting #quotes #JohnIrving
August 30, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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“Life forces enough final decisions on us," Mrs. Oastler continued. "We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.”
--John Winslow Irving (1942- )
From “Until I Find You” (2005) Spoken by the character Leslie Oastler
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“Life forces enough final decisions on us," Mrs. Oastler continued. "We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.” --John Winslow Irving (1942- ) From “Until I Find You” (2005) Spoken by the character Leslie Oastler #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #JohnIrving The sentence sorts decisions into two piles. Some close a door permanently, and life will hand you a steady supply of those whether you want them or not. The rest only look permanent. Mrs. Oastler is not advising courage about the first kind, which would be pointless. She is saying stop manufacturing extra ones. It is counsel about restraint. In this particular novel, almost nobody in it takes the advice. Every major character in "Until I Find You" has been marked for life, some by ink and some by abandonment or abuse. The whole book is built on permanence: tattoos that cannot come off, a father who never came back, memories that turn out to have been lies. A warning about needless finality arrives among people already covered in it. There is a wrinkle behind the book worth knowing. Irving wrote all eight hundred pages in first person, then judged the material too close to his own life, delayed publication, and rewrote the entire thing in third. Most writers would treat a finished manuscript as final. He treated it as one of the decisions that only looked that way.
August 30, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Begin #zomergasten al geweldig. #TommyWieringa met fragmenten van de schrijvers #JohnIrving en #ALSnijders. 📚
August 16, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Wat heerlijk dat #Zomergasten met #TommyWieringa begint met #JohnIrving, mijn favoriete schrijver!

Dit wordt een leuke avond!
August 16, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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14. Favorite books include A Prayer for Owen Meany, Piranesi, Rebecca, If On A Winter's Night a Traveler, The Diamond in the Window, & Winnie-the-Pooh

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Book covers: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Piranesi by Susanna Clarke The Diamond in the Widow by Jane Langton Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
September 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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12. Owen Meany is the main reason that my favorite novel is A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.

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September 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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20 authors you’d recommend to a friend. One author per day, no particular order.

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#JohnIrving #APrayerForOwenMeany #TheWorldAccordingToGarp #TheCiderHouseRules #TheHotelNewHampshire

13/20: John Irving

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July 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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BookChallenge 💙📚

20 books you'd recommend to a friend. One book per day, no particular order.

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#readingchallenge

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9/20 The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Book cover for The Cider House Rules by John Irving
June 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Day 23 - A book quote you know by heart

Two from The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving:

"Keep passing the open windows" & "Beware the Undertoad" (a child misunderstanding "undertow")

Not my favorite Irving, but very memorable.

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May 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Day 9 - Favorite book to give as a gift

It depends on the person. I have given John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany to more than one person. Otherwise I like to choose nice editions of poetry books for gifts.

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April 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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A sharp literary treasure for the shelf — a clean #JohnIrving signature on a photo that hits with the same edge and wit that made “The World According to Garp” a modern classic ✍️ Authenticated by @beckettcollect. eBay tinyurl.com/5xt3vh4k Amazon tinyurl.com/3t7p6dfm
January 24, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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A sharp lineup of #autographed shots from #author #JohnIrving — the literary mind behind classics like The World According to Garp — now up for grabs at VeriSigned eBay tinyurl.com/ytnhccts Amazon tinyurl.com/kwneyf4n
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December 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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#RARE stack of photos #autographed by #author #JohnIrving available to browse from VeriSigned on eBay tinyurl.com/ytnhccts and Amazon tinyurl.com/kwneyf4n
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March 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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February 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM