...worst of all were the highly unlikely science-fiction novels, or the equally implausible futuristic tales.
Couldn't my mom and Nana Victoria see for themselves that I was both mystified and frightened by life on Earth?
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You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.
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Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic," Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.
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Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?
John IrvingTags: novels
You're not like anyone else, Billy - that's what's the matter with you," Donna said.
John IrvingTags: what-s-the-matter
...there's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love.
John IrvingTags: love admiration
The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels!
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I'm just a woman with a penis!" she would say, her voice rising.
John IrvingTags: woman-with-a-penis
...one of the more sophisticated and accepting things about Europe, when it came to difficult decisions regarding sexual identity, was that the Europeans were so used to sexual differences that they had already begun to make fun of them.
John IrvingTags: sexually-different-europe
What do you think I imagine making love to a vagina would be like? Maybe like having sex with a ballroom!
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