„Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.“
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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John Irving
Data de nascimento: 2. Março 1942
Outros nomes: Irving
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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.
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„The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.“
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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„People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.“
— John Irving, The Cider House Rules
„So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother and someone’s older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them… That’s what happens, like it or not. And because that’s what happens, this is what we need: we need a good, smart bear… Coach Bob knew it all along: you’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows.“
— John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
„Imagining something is better than remembering something.“
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
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„If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.“
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
„It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard,..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.“
— John Irving, The Cider House Rules
„I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.“
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
„A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy“
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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„In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases“
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
