John Irving Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why? Because wrestling requires even more dedication than writing because wrestling represents the most difficult and rewarding objective that I have ever dedicated myself to; because wrestling and wrestling coaches are among the most disciplined and self-sacrificing people I have ever known.

  John Irving

  Art, Writing, Wrestling

• In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

  John Irving

  Book, Reading, School

• I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we’re understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball.

  John Irving

  Basketball, Wrestling, Weekend

• I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

  John Irving

  Community, Good Man, Manners

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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