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“Le romancier est comme un médecin qui ne s'occuperait que des incurables. Et nous sommes tous des incurables.”

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“Je ne mène pas une vie de fou. Je n'ai pas besoin de "dissiper les nuages" tous les soirs, ni toutes les semaines, ni même une fois par mois. La plupart du temps, le soir, je ne regarde même pas mon téléphone. D'autres fois pourtant, cet appareil semble convoquer tous les gens injoignables de mon passé. […] Tel est le téléphone, certains soirs : le passé injoignable, les morts qui réclament de donner leur avis.”

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La petite amie imaginaire

“[…] l’art du romancier est la capacité d’imaginer de façon vraie.”

John Irving livre Le Monde selon Garp

Le Monde selon Garp

“L'un de ses détracteurs ayant affirmé que ce qu'il faisait ne plaisait sûrement pas à Dieu, Mauriac eut cette réponse admirable : "Dieu, monsieur, se soucie peu de ce que nous écrivons; mais lorsque c'est bien écrit, il s'en sert."”

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La petite amie imaginaire

“Eric [Ross] et moi […] n'avons pas aimé et n'aimons toujours pas Vienne. C'est une petite ville; son antisémitisme notoire n'est qu'un aspect parmi d'autres de son provincialisme mesquin, où règne une xénophobie généralisée, une défiance qui peut aller jusqu'à la haine de tous les éléments extérieurs. "Des geht bei uns nicht", disent les Autrichiens. "Cela ne s'accorde pas avec nous". le mot Ausländer, étranger, y est toujours péjoratif. Quant à la Gemütlichkeit viennoise, c'est une attraction touristique, la fausse gentillesse d'un peuple fondamentalement unhöflich.”

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La petite amie imaginaire

“Eric et moi, jeunes Américains idéalistes, ne pouvions rien faire de plus que de tendre un miroir à cette inexplicable tolérance de l'intolérance.”

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À propos de l'antisémitisme en Autriche.
La petite amie imaginaire

John Irving: Citations en anglais

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

“The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean—make sure they know what they mean!”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

“The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.”

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John Irving livre A Son of the Circus

Source: A Son of the Circus

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”

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John Irving livre The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

““People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.””

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John Irving livre The Cider House Rules

Variante: People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
Source: The Cider House Rules

“You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life”

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John Irving livre Le Monde selon Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

“You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”

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John Irving livre The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire, ch. 11

“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”

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John Irving livre The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.”

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John Irving livre The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), ch. 6

“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”

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John Irving livre Le Monde selon Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

“My life is a reading list.”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Keep passing the open windows.”

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John Irving livre The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”

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John Irving livre Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”

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John Irving livre The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), ch. 9

“In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.”

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John Irving livre Until I Find You

Source: Until I Find You

“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”

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John Irving livre Le Monde selon Garp

Source: The World According to Garp]] (1978)

“Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.”

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Source: My Movie Business: A Memoir

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”

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John Irving livre Le Monde selon Garp

Source: The World According to Garp, ch. 19

“It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?”

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John Irving livre The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you—just watching you, waiting for you to wake up.”

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John Irving livre Until I Find You

Source: Until I Find You

“You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.”

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John Irving livre The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Life is serious but art is fun!”

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“If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.”

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John Irving livre A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year

“… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.”

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John Irving livre The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

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