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Frases célebres de John Irving
A Widow for One Year
John Irving Frases y Citas
The World According to Garp
A Widow for One Year
The World According to Garp
Variante: Y naturalmente, para ser justos, lo mejor de las ellenjamesianas había consistido en dar a conocer el pavor general que tan burtalmente amenazaba a mujeres y niñas. Para muchas ellenjamesianas, la imitación del horrible deslenguamiento no había sido "enteramente político". Había sido una identificación muy personal. Por supuesto, en algunos casos las ellenjamesianas eran mujeres que también habían sido violadas y lo que querían decir era que se sentían como si les faltara la lengua. En un mundo de hombres, sentían que las habían reducido al silencio para siempre.
The World According to Garp
John Irving: Frases en inglés
“The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.”
Fuente: A Prayer for Owen Meany
“The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.”
Fuente: A Son of the Circus

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
Fuente: The Hotel New Hampshire
““People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.””
Variante: People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
Fuente: The Cider House Rules
“You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
Fuente: The Hotel New Hampshire, ch. 11
“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
Fuente: The World According to Garp
“Keep passing the open windows.”
Fuente: The Hotel New Hampshire
“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
Fuente: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
Fuente: The Cider House Rules
“Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.”
Fuente: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), ch. 9
“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
Fuente: The World According to Garp]] (1978)
“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”
Fuente: A Prayer for Owen Meany
“In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”
Fuente: The World According to Garp, ch. 19
“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.”
Fuente: A Widow for One Year