"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."
― John Irving
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Family
― John Irving
More From John Irving
- "I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave – and nothing but laughter to console them with."
- "The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of."
- "If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
More In Family
- "We say keep your change, we’ll keep our God, our guns, our constitution."― Sarah Palin
- "In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously."― David Mamet
- "Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family."― Mayim Bialik