Frases de John Irving

John Winslow Irving nascido como John Wallace Blunt Jr., é um romancista estadunidense, autor de best-sellers e vencedor do Óscar como roteirista.

Irving foi aclamado depois do sucesso internacional de The Word According to Garp, em 1978. Todos os romances de Irving, como The Cider House Rules e O filho de Deus vai pra guerra, tornaram-se beste-sellers e muitos foram adaptados para o cinema. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Março 1942   •   Outros nomes Irving
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John Irving: Frases em inglês

“The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.”

John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving citar: “It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”

John Irving livro The Hotel New Hampshire

Fonte: The Hotel New Hampshire

““People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.””

John Irving livro The Cider House Rules

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.”

John Irving livro The Hotel New Hampshire

Fonte: The Hotel New Hampshire, ch. 11

“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”

John Irving livro The World According to Garp

Fonte: The World According to Garp

“My life is a reading list.”

John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Keep passing the open windows.”

John Irving livro The Hotel New Hampshire

Fonte: The Hotel New Hampshire

“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”

John Irving livro Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Fonte: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”

John Irving livro The Cider House Rules

Fonte: The Cider House Rules

“Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.”

John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), ch. 9

“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”

John Irving livro The World According to Garp

Fonte: The World According to Garp]] (1978)

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”

John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”

John Irving livro The World According to Garp

Fonte: The World According to Garp, ch. 19

“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.”

John Irving livro A Widow for One Year

Fonte: A Widow for One Year