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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. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Março 1942   •   Outros nomes Irving
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John Irving Frases famosas

“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

“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either.”

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Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1988)

“Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student—and not a good one—and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.”

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"John Irving Interviewed by Suzanne Herel." Mother Jones magazine, May/June 1997.

“I write repeatedly—against my will—of those things I fear most happening. Losing a loved one, losing a parent, losing a child. I'm in terror of losing a child. It's never happened to me, but I am clearly compelled to write about it over and over again, and in a way I think, psychologically at least, this says more about me autobiographically as a novelist than the fact that Danny Angel goes to the Iowa Writers Workshop and has Kurt Vonnegut as a teacher, which I also did.”

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The Best of The Sunday Edition, CBC.ca, CBC, Michael Enright, October 25, 2009, November 5, 2009 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/sundayedition_20091026_22073.mp3,

“(In reference to Vermont's Act 60): This is Marxism. It's leveling everything by decimating what works … It's that vindictive 'We've suffered, and now we're going to take money from your kid and watch you squirm'… There's a minority which is an open target in this country which no one protects, and that's rich people.”

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[Salon, News, July 1, 1998, http://www.salon.com/news/1998/07/01news.html]

“Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory.”

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John Irving livro The World According to Garp

The World According to Garp, ch. 5

“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.”

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Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1988)

“But we are not known for our ability to follow through on our unearned discoveries. We are top-of-the-water adventurers, who limit our opinions of the icebergs to what we can see.”

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A Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996)