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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4967f30 | My God," Franny would say later. "They would bring their daughter to see a murder, but they wouldn't even let her hear about an orgasm. Americans sure are strange." | John Irving | ||
| be425b8 | Every misunderstanding has at its center a breakdown of language. | John Irving | ||
| 419a757 | A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct of philanthropy | John Irving | ||
| 54acd6b | Why does it seem to take more than half a lifetime to get to be a lousy teenager? Why does childhood take forever - when you're a child? Why does it seem to occupy a solid three-quarters of the whole trip? And when it's over, when the kids grow up, when you suddenly have to face facts...well," Frank said to me, just recently, "you know the story. When we were in the first Hotel New Hampshire, it seemed we'd go on being thirteen and fourteen.. | John Irving | ||
| e5ce193 | It was as if all the books in her room had been feeding on her, had consumed - not nourished - her. | John Irving | ||
| fee3d0a | There are many unintentionally cruel talents that the world, indiscriminately, hands out to us. Whether we can use these gifts we never asked for is not the worlds concern. | talent | John Irving | |
| 4a784c5 | Most self-destructive behavior is simply ridiculous--never mind how complexly compelled by personal demons. | John Irving | ||
| 8c1721c | You just go up the Hudson," I told him. "Sure, man," he said. "Up the what?" | John Irving | ||
| 941219d | I should know better than to read even as much as a headline in The New York Times; although, as I've often pointed out to my students at Bishop Strachan this newspaper's use of the semicolon is exemplary. Reagan Declares Firmness on Gulf; Plans are Unclear Isn't that classic? I don't mean the semicolon; I mean, isn't that just what the world needs? Unclear firmness! That is typical American policy: don't be clear, but be firm! | John Irving | ||
| 77f049c | What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid; they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress - lie to the people and violate the people's constitution! What Mr. Hart should have said was that nothing .. | John Irving | ||
| c1c3021 | These same people who tell us we must defend the lives of the unborn--they are the same people who seem not so interested in defending anyone but themselves after the accident of birth is complete! These same people who profess their love of the unborn's soul--they don't care to make much of a contribution to the poor, they don't care to offer much assistance to the unwanted or the oppressed! How do they justify such a concern for the fetus.. | John Irving | ||
| 1d033a5 | And Clark clearly knew and disapproved of El Nido. (A nido could be a nest, a den, a hole, a haunt.) | John Irving | ||
| a5d41f8 | That poor girl wasn't a girl," Senor Eduardo said; he'd glanced once at Lupe, asleep in his lap, just to be sure she was still sleeping. "That poor girl was Flor," | John Irving | ||
| 26df0f0 | But Brother Pepe put reading on a pedestal; he was a Jesuit because the Jesuits had made him a reader and introduced him to Jesus, not necessarily in that order. It was best not to ask Pepe if reading or Jesus had saved him, or which one had saved him more. | John Irving | ||
| bbdd2b8 | I'm not a fortune-teller!" Lupe said, but Juan Diego didn't translate this. "The woman you want is Soledad," Vargas said to Edward Bonshaw. "What woman? I don't want a woman!" the new missionary cried; he'd imagined that Dr. Vargas had misunderstood what a vow of celibacy entailed. "Not a woman for you, Mr. Celibacy," Vargas said. "I mean the woman you need to talk to, on behalf of the kids. Soledad is the woman who looks after the kids at .. | John Irving | ||
| 396ceff | Wasn't this the point Juan Diego had made repeatedly? Women readers kept fiction alive--here was another one. When Juan Diego had used Spanish in crying out the scholastic's name, the Chinese girl knew she'd been right about who he was. | John Irving | ||
| dd173cc | But Vienna was in its death phase; it lay still and let me look at it, and think about it, and look again. In a living city, I could never have noticed so much. Living cities don't hold still. | John Irving | ||
| a78f278 | Writers who have any audience have more readers than they know. Juan Diego was more famous than he thought. | John Irving | ||
| f835758 | When the deranged rooster crowed a third time, his crowing was cut off mid-squawk. "There, that does it," Miriam said. "No more heralding of a false dawn, no more untruthful messengers." | John Irving | ||
| 0a3654e | I really like the sex in your novels," Dorothy told him. "I like how you do it." "I like it better," Miriam said to him, giving her daughter an all-knowing look. "I have the perspective to know what really bad sex is," Dorothy's mom told her. "Please, Mother--don't paint us a picture," Dorothy said." | John Irving | ||
| 936f089 | Kad vam umre osoba koju volite, a vi to ne ocekujete, ne gubite je odjednom. Gubite je dugo, u komadicima - bas kao sto prestaje dolaziti posta s njezinim imenom i njen miris lagano blijedi s jastuka, pa cak i s odjece u njenom ormaru i ladicama. I bas kada dode dan u kojem vas neki poseban komadic koji nedostaje preplavi osjecajem da je nestala zauvijek, dode drugi dan i neki drugi poseban komadic. | John Irving | ||
| 2b6c740 | Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean-- make sure they know what they mean! | John Irving | ||
| b0284e5 | Whoa!" cried the Crucified Christ--he looked more like the Drowned Christ at the moment, and the whoa word was a foreign-sounding one to the Spanish-speaking kindergartners. Four or five of the terrified children instantly wet their pants; one little girl shrieked so loudly that several girls and boys bit their tongues. Those kindergartners nearest the door to the bedroom bolted through the bedroom, screaming, and raced into the hall. Those.. | John Irving | ||
| 585540b | I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it. | Alan Moore | ||
| 2d86aff | A very merry, dancing, drinking,Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time. | Merriment | ||
| dde4fd1 | And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. | Merriment | ||
| 2fc2da3 | It was remarkable to Julia--(it did not hurt or offend her, but only amused her)--how Ryan's family managed to take photographs or videos of themselves that excluded her. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| f98aa3a | In her behavior Mrs. S----was youthful and loud-talking which made us uneasy, for children are not comfortable when adults behave as if they are not adults. Often it seemed that Mrs. S----was winking at us as if there was some joke between her and us, unexplained. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| f64e7e8 | You could be thoroughly an intellectual while not surrendering maleness; you could not be so totally intellectual and not surrender some degree of femaleness. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 2ae1843 | A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. | Merriment | ||
| 6e61e05 | Murder? Don't talk to me about murder. I invented murder! | Alan Moore | ||
| 0aa63f7 | We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. | Alan Moore | ||
| a07823b | 'Tis merry in hallWhere beards wag all. | Merriment | ||
| 98bbba7 | Memories so treacherous... | Alan Moore | ||
| a87f955 | To watch boxing closely, and seriously, is to risk moments of what might be called animal panic--a sense not only that something very ugly is happening but that, by watching it, one is an accomplice. This awareness, or revelation, or weakness, or hairline split in one's cuticle of a self can come at any instant, unanticipated and unbidden; though of course it tends to sweep over the viewer when he is watching a really violent match. I feel .. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 71fe207 | Dominique (who, like other Catamount girls, had a cache of pills for every occasion) offered me a bennie- Benzedrine?- to elevate my spirits. Adamantly I told her, No thanks! I wanted to face what's called reality with my eyes open. I've made that a principle for my life. Sometimes I wonder if this has been a wise decision. | principle reality | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 1eddfbd | Traicao e uma coisa dolorosa. Traicao e a ferida mais profunda. Traicao e o que resta do amor depois que o amor acaba. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 84baebc | Voce tem o desejo de por a culpa neles, nos que foram assassinados. Sem duvida que deseja por a culpa em qualquer mulher nua e estrangulada na propria cama. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 163bedf | Mulheres eram especialistas em chorar, assim como os homens eram humilhados e impedidos de chorar. Mulheres eram purificadas pelo choro, assim como os homens eram maculados e manchados pelo choro. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| e5d0d1b | misinterpreting her silence for a broken heart, her cynicism about men for depression, ir despondency [...] | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| ad2fa6f | Nunca soube de ninguem que tenha tido a vida salva por um bebe. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| ad2a584 | Como isso acontece, voce gosta tanto de alguem -- ama alguem, talvez -- e depois, nao muito tempo depois, o que sente e odio? Um odio horrivel e funesto? Um odio de vontade de matar? Por que? | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 059626e | Voce pode fingir ser quase tudo que nao e, ha pouquissimas coisas que de fato se pode ser. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| b67161c | The writer understands how deeply mysterious the 'familiar' really is. How strangely opaque, what we've seen a thousand times. And how inconsolable a loss, when the taken-for-granted is finally taken from us. | Joyce Carol Oates |