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This is a real-life story, Owen," I said. "It's not a mystery novel." In real life, I meant, there was nothing written that the missing father couldn't"
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But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead ...'" Pastor Merrill assured us. "'For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead,'" my father said."
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living in a world where nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently." I"
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Look at the world: look at how many of our peerless leaders presume to tell us that they know what God wants! It's not God who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in Him and who claim to pursue their ends in His holy name!
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I read that part over and over again, until I felt I had the pronunciation right. There was quite a good pencil drawing of a phoenix, that mythical bird that was supposed
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to burn itself on a funeral pyre and then rise up from its own ashes. Under the drawing, Owen had written: "OFTEN A SYMBOL OF REBORN IDEALISM, OR HOPE--OR AN EMBLEM OF IMMORTALITY." And"
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Vano e dire che gli esseri umani dovrebbero contentarsi della tranquillita: occorre loro l'azione; e la creeranno, se non riescono a trovarla.
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Ogni volta che lanci una lumaca dalla darsena," Ray disse a Homer Wells per canzonarlo, "costringi qualcuno a ricominciare la vita daccapo". "Magari gli faccio un favore," disse Homer Wells, l'orfano."
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Come amiamo amar le cose per conto di altri! Come amiamo che altri amino le cose tramite i nostri occhi
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It is occasionally necessary for me to tell Torontonians of the presence of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; they tend to think of the Great Lakes as the waters of the world.
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That's actually happened?' Ruth asked. 'Everything's happened,' the prostitute said.
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What bothered Ruth was that she needed to be with Rooie again -- just to see, as in a story, what would happen next. That meant Rooie was in charge.
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IF SOME PREACHER'S AN ASSHOLE, THAT'S NOT PROOF THAT GOD DOESN'T EXIST! (page 286)
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Hietzingin elaintarhassa on vain yksi ruokkiperheen edustaja. Se on pienin ruokkilaji, jota kuvataan pienikokoiseksi ja nuivanaamaiseksi ja aika tyhmaksi; sen tiedetaan vaeltaneen pitkin polkuja, missa sen paalle saatettiin heposti astua. Itse asiassa kuningasruokki oli niin typera lintu, etta se kuoli sukupuuttoon. Viimeinen isoruokki nahtiin elavana vuonna 1844 ja viimeinen kuollut isoruokki huuhtoutui rantaan Trinity Bayssa Irlannissa vu..
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR, YOU DON'T NEED ANY SPECIAL TALENT, YOU JUST HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT SOMEONE WANTS YOU TO SEE--TO WHAT MAKES SOMEONE ANGRIEST, OR THE MOST EXCITED IN SOME OTHER WAY. IT'S SO EASY; I THINK THAT'S WHY THERE ARE SO MANY ENGLISH MAJORS
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You think you have a memory; but it has you! Later,
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Savor, don't gorge.
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sexuality
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Er Schrieb an Helen, dass Jungsein zum Teil auch aus dem Gefuhl besteht, dass es niemanden gibt, der dir genug ahnelt um dich zu verstehen
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Some unexplainable things are real.
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Das Leben ist leider nicht so gebaut wie ein guter, altmodischer Roman. Vielmehr endet es, wenn sich diejenigen, die sich erschopfen sollen, erschopft haben. Alles, was bleibt, ist die Erinnerung.
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Both,' Garp wrote, 'were of the opinion that the practice of law was vulgar, but the study of it was sublime.' They
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As a novelist, he was always looking ahead, too.)
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John Irving |
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Jenny decided that all manifestations of her innocence were futile and appeared defensive.
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Clothes, whips, reading material," the customs officer had summarized, in Spanish and English, to the young American. "Just the bare essentials!" Edward Bonshaw"
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THINK OF HARDY AS A MAN WHO WAS ALMOST RELIGIOUS, AS A MAN WHO CAME SO CLOSE TO BELIEVING IN GOD THAT WHEN HE REJECTED GOD, HIS REJECTION MADE HIM FEROCIOUSLY BITTER. THE KIND OF FATE HARDY BELIEVES IN IS ALMOST LIKE BELIEVING IN GOD - AT LEAST IN THAT TERRIBLE, JUDGMENTAL GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. HARDY HATES INSTITUTIONS: THE CHURCH - MORE THAN FAITH OR BELIEF - AND CERTAINLY MARRIAGE (THE INSTITUTION OF IT), AND THE INSTITUTION OF EDUCAT..
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Pinche pendejo chimuelo!
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Hijo de la chingada!
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No estoy aqui, que soy tu madre?
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Am I not here, for I am your mother?
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Amazing!" said Mr. McSwiney. "You've got a permanently fixed larynx," he told Owen. "I've rarely seen such a thing," he said. "Your voice box is never in repose - your Adam's apple sits up there in the position of a permanent scream. I could try giving you some exercises, but you might want to see a throat doctor; you might have to have surgery." "I DON'T WANT TO HAVE SURGERY, I DON'T NEED ANY EXERCISES," said Owen Meany. "IF GOD GAVE ME TH..
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Everyone suspected that the rigors of a good school would have the desired, dulling effect on Noah and Simon--Gravesend Academy would assault them with a host of new demands, of impossible standards. The sheer volume (if not the value) of the homework would tire them out, and everyone knew that tired boys were safer boys; the numbing routine, the strict attentions paid to the dress code, the regulations regarding only the most occasional an..
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Dzhenni Garp ponimala, chto v mire predstavlenii ee ottsa my dolzhny obladat' opredelennym zapasom energii. Ee znamenitaia babka Dzhenni Fildz kogda-to vosprinimala (i klassifitsirovala) liudei kak <>, <>, <> i <>. No v mire glazami Garpa vse my prosto <>.
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Did having a dog make you less political?
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Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean, make sure they know what you mean!
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Churchill Park have their bellies turned toward the sun.
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Lupe's language was incomprehensible--what came out of her mouth didn't even sound like Spanish.
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John Irving |
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After twenty years in Canada, there are certain American lunatics who still fascinate me.
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John Irving |
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I thought that fanatics would always have an audience; all one might hope to influence was the size of the audience.
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I actually remember my grandfather better as a woman than as a man.
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John Irving |
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foreshadowing is the storytelling companion of fate.
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To the dump kids, it also seemed perfectly logical that they were driven to the circus by a transvestite prostitute.
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John Irving |
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the memoir-novel "dumbed down fiction and traduced"
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