Amy Martin (ladysky) and Daniel Baciagalupo had a month to spend on Charlotte Turner's island in Georgian Bay; it was their wilderness way of getting to know each other before their life together in Toronto began. We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.
Little Joe was gone, but not a day passed in Daniel Baciagalupo's life when Joe wasn't loved or remembered. The cook had been murdered in his bed, but Dominic Baciagalupo had had the last laugh on the cowboy. Ketchum's left hand would lvie forever in Twisted River, and Six-Pack had known what to do with the rest of her old friend

John Irving

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It was quality that killed Lilly; it was the end of The Great Gatsby, which was not her ending, which was not an ending within her grasp.

John Irving


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Did the rhythm of the train on the tracks somehow unravel her and make her behave out of character? Was she altered in transit, when her feet were not upon the ground?

John Irving


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

John Irving

Mots clés education learning life-lessons legality



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. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

John Irving


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A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to pray. Just when I start to hear the prayer, everyone pops up to sing. And what does the stupid sermon have to do with God? Who knows what God thinks of current events? Who cares?

John Irving

Mots clés religion service church catholic mass



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All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.

John Irving

Mots clés gay tolerance homesexual les-folles



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

John Irving

Mots clés truth rumors sensationalism



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It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.

John Irving

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He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

John Irving

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