John Irving: Cytaty po angielsku

John Irving jest amerykański pisarz i scenarzysta filmowy. Cytaty po angielsku.
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“Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you”

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John Irving książka Hotel New Hampshire

Źródło: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Sorrow floats.”

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John Irving książka Hotel New Hampshire

Źródło: The Hotel New Hampshire

“I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.”

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John Irving książka Modlitwa za Owena

Źródło: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.”

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John Irving książka Hotel New Hampshire

Źródło: The Hotel New Hampshire

“How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.”

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John Irving książka The Cider House Rules

Źródło: The Cider House Rules

“when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.”

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John Irving książka Modlitwa za Owena

Źródło: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.”

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John Irving książka Until I Find You

Źródło: Until I Find You (2005), ch. 25, p. 493

“…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.”

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John Irving książka Jednoroczna wdowa

Źródło: A Widow for One Year

“We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.”

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John Irving książka Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Źródło: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

“He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.”

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John Irving książka Modlitwa za Owena

Źródło: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.”

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John Irving książka Modlitwa za Owena

Źródło: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.”

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John Irving książka Modlitwa za Owena

Źródło: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“We are formed by what we desire”

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John Irving In One Person

Źródło: In One Person

“Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.”

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John Irving książka Świat według Garpa

Źródło: The World According to Garp

“It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.”

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John Irving książka Modlitwa za Owena

Źródło: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.”

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John Irving książka Until I Find You

Źródło: Until I Find You