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

“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

“Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.”

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John Irving In One Person

Fonte: In One Person

“If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough.”

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John Irving livro The Hotel New Hampshire

Fonte: The Hotel New Hampshire

“If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.”

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John Irving livro Last Night in Twisted River

Fonte: Last Night in Twisted River

“Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water… remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.”

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”

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John Irving livro The World According to Garp

Fonte: The World According to Garp

“Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.”

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John Irving livro The World According to Garp

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“The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.”

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“Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.”

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John Irving In One Person

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“And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.”

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John Irving In One Person

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“Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.”

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John Irving livro Last Night in Twisted River

Fonte: Last Night in Twisted River

“This is a writer’s lesson:
To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.”

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John Irving livro Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Fonte: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

“This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.”

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“You can't learn everything you need to know legally.”

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John Irving livro A Widow for One Year

Fonte: A Widow for One Year (1998), part II, ch. 7

“Being wrong about important things is exhausting.”

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John Irving livro The Cider House Rules

Fonte: The Cider House Rules

“…there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old…”

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John Irving livro A Widow for One Year

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“As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.”

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

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“It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.”

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John Irving livro The Cider House Rules

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“…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.”

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“I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you.”

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John Irving livro The Cider House Rules

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“Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.”

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

Fonte: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action”

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

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“Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

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John Irving livro The World According to Garp

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“If pride is a sin… moral pride is the greatest sin.”

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John Irving livro The Cider House Rules

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“You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.”

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John Irving livro Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

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“Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.”

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John Irving livro The Hotel New Hampshire

Fonte: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.”

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John Irving livro A Widow for One Year

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“A reader told me recently, in London, said that 'well, I read that you write the last sentence first, so I always read your last sentence first.' And I said, 'oh, no, you're not supposed to do that.”

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John Irving

“[On his process for writing novels:] I can't imagine what the first sentence is, I can't imagine where I want the reader to enter the story, if I don't know where the reader is going to leave the story. So once I know what the last thing the reader hears is, I can work my way backward, like following a roadmap in reverse.”

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A modern novelist of Dickensian tradition, Spotlight, Russia Today, January 24, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ost0Gyl2V1I,

“The kind of people claiming to be in communication with God today … they are enough to drive a real Christian crazy!”

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John Irving livro A Prayer for Owen Meany

A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

“He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you."”

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John Irving livro The World According to Garp

The World According to Garp (1978), ch. 5

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