I had acquired an undeniable mystique - if only to the Bancroft butt-room boys. Don't forget: Miss Frost was an older woman, and that goes a long way with boys - even if the older woman has a penis!

John Irving

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I'll bet every fucking one of your angels is going to be terrifying!

John Irving

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It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.

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What would Miss Frost have thought of me? I wondered; I didn't mean my writing. What would she have thought of my relationships with men and women? Had I ever "protected" anyone? For whom had I truly been worthwhile?

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That's okay," I said. "We're writers. We make things up.

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Of course, everyone is intolerant of something or someone.

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If you live long enough, Bill - it's a world of epilogues," Richard Abbott said.

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For seven of the eight years he was president, Reagan would not say the AIDS word.

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I didn't try to say the penis word for Elaine. "Cock," I said to her.

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Because who can describe the look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past? Who can ever estimate the power of association, which is always strongest in moments of love and in memories of death?

John Irving

Mots clés nostalgia death memory



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