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The Cider House Rules

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The Cider House Rules

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“Nós inventamos o que amamos e o que tememos.”

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“Uma sociedade democrática condena as pessoas ao acidente da concepção? - esbravejava o Dr. Larch. - O que somos nós…? Macacos? Se esperamos que as pessoas sejam responsáveis por seus filhos, então é preciso lhes dar o direito de optar se querem ou não tê-los. O que vocês estão pensando? Não são apenas loucos! São ogros também!”

John Irving livro The Cider House Rules

The Cider House Rules

“Quando chegou a Portland, já tirara as suas conclusões. Era um obstetra; trazia bebês ao mundo. Os colegas diziam que isso era "a obra de Deus". E era um aborteiro; também salvava as mães. Os colegas diziam que isso era "a obra do demônio"; mas era tudo a obra de Deus para Wilbur Larch. Como a Sra. Maxwell comentara: "A alma de um verdadeiro médico não pode deixar de ser ampla e generosa".”

John Irving livro The Cider House Rules

The Cider House Rules

John Irving: Frases em inglês

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

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

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

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“Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean—make sure they know what they mean!”

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

“The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.”

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John Irving livro A Son of the Circus

Fonte: A Son of the Circus

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

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John Irving livro The Hotel New Hampshire

Fonte: The Hotel New Hampshire

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

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John Irving livro The Cider House Rules

Variante: People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
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“You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life”

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John Irving livro The World According to Garp

Fonte: The World According to Garp

“You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”

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John Irving livro The Hotel New Hampshire

Fonte: The Hotel New Hampshire, ch. 11

“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”

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John Irving livro The Cider House Rules

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“To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.”

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John Irving livro The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), ch. 6

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

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John Irving livro The World According to Garp

Fonte: The World According to Garp

“My life is a reading list.”

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Keep passing the open windows.”

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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.”

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John Irving livro Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Fonte: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

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

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John Irving livro The Cider House Rules

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

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

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

“In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.”

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John Irving livro Until I Find You

Fonte: Until I Find You

“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”

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John Irving livro The World According to Garp

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

“Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.”

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John Irving

Fonte: My Movie Business: A Memoir

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

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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.”

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John Irving livro The World According to Garp

Fonte: The World According to Garp, ch. 19

“It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.”

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?”

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John Irving livro The Cider House Rules

Fonte: The Cider House Rules

“The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you—just watching you, waiting for you to wake up.”

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John Irving livro Until I Find You

Fonte: Until I Find You

“You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.”

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John Irving livro The Hotel New Hampshire

Fonte: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Life is serious but art is fun!”

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“If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.”

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany

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

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John Irving livro A Widow for One Year

Fonte: A Widow for One Year

“… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.”

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John Irving livro The Cider House Rules

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