John Irving Quotes

Newspapers Are A Bad Habit, The Reading Equivalent Of Junk Food. What Happens To Me Is That I Seize Upon An Issue In The News - The Issue Is The Moral/philosophical, Political/intellectual Equivalent Of A Cheeseburger With Everything On It; But For The Duration Of My Interest In It, All My Other Interests Are Consumed By It, And Whatever Appetites And Capacities I May Have Had For Detachment And Reflection Are Suddenly Subordinate To This Cheeseburger In My Life! I Offer This As Self-criticism; But What It Means To Be "political" Is That You Welcome These Obsessions With Cheeseburgers - At Great Cost To The Rest Of Your Life.

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