The Last Chairlift
John Irving
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You are never over your childhood, not until you are under the train—unter dem Zug.”
“You don’t choose your nightmares; they choose you.”
“Readers vary, when it comes to having the imagination to enjoy a story outside their own experiences.”
“Loved ones leave us and we go on—ghosts or no ghosts, my way or Molly’s, we still see them. As Matthew and I knew, the dead don’t entirely go away—not if you see them on the subway, or in your heart.”
“Lies of omission count as lies, sweetie—they can be the worst ones.”
“As Em would one day act out for me, pantomimists are always misquoted.”
“When you write screenplays that don’t get made, you lose your sense of humor about the bad movies that do get made”
“When you write about your life as a screenplay, it’s as if you’re watching someone else’s life; it’s not your life, and you’re not living it. You’re only seeing what the characters do, your character included. And screenplays are written in the present tense—as if nothing has already happened, as if everything is unfolding in the present. I’m only saying this is how it started—how I began to see my life as an unmade movie. The way it began was almost natural. INT.”
“When the lies of omission unravel, so does the story.”
“What we believe as children forms us; what haunts us in our childhood and adolescence can make us do wayward things,”
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