"I do wonder, Mr. Wolf," she said sweetly,

"If you'd know when a bathroom was clean," she went over and peered in his wastebasket, "or when a wastebasket was empty," she said. "A book feels true when it feels true," she said to him, impatiently. pp 325

"Tolerance of the intolerance is a difficult task that the times ask of us..." pp 386

"...don't worry - so what if there is no life after death? There is life after Garp, believe me. Even if there is only death after death (after death), be grateful for small favors - sometimes there is birth after sex, for example." pp 413

"Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory." pp 418

"Your father was a difficult fellow; he never gave an inch - but that's the point: he was always following his nose; whenever it took him, it was always his nose." pp 424

"But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases." pp 437

-The World According to Garp, John Irving
A Henry Robbins Book
EP Dutton, New York
1978
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These were some of the quotes that struck me. I finally finished the novel today. I feel like I gained and lost something at the same time.