Let the grave mound grow a little grass, I always say; then it’s safe to look.

John Irving


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The lie, of course, is more interesting.

John Irving

Mots clés lie interesting



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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

John Irving


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Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.

John Irving

Mots clés knowledge religion faith thought



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We aren't eccentric, we're not bizarre. To each other, we're as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family, even exaggerations make perfect sense; they are always logical exaggerations, nothing more.

John Irving


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No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

John Irving


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It seemed to Dr. Daruwalla that his story was the opposite of universal; his story was simply strange - the doctor himself was singularly foreign.

John Irving


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The two old secretaries conversed in the manner of hostile but toothless male dogs.

John Irving


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Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him completely by surprise.

John Irving


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Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked.

"Seventeen, " I told her.

"Seventeen!" Miss Frost cried, as if she'd been stabbed. "Well, William Abbott, if you're nostalgic at seventeen, maybe you are going to be a writer!

John Irving

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