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The Cider House Rules
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The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules
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“The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.”
Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany
“The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.”
Fonte: A Son of the Circus

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
Fonte: The Hotel New Hampshire
““People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.””
Variante: People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
Fonte: The Cider House Rules
“You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
Fonte: The Hotel New Hampshire, ch. 11
“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
Fonte: The World According to Garp
“Keep passing the open windows.”
Fonte: The Hotel New Hampshire
“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
Fonte: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
Fonte: The Cider House Rules
“Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.”
Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), ch. 9
“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
Fonte: The World According to Garp]] (1978)
“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”
Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany
“In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”
Fonte: The World According to Garp, ch. 19
“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.”
Fonte: A Widow for One Year