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Frases célebres de John Irving
John Irving Frases y Citas
John Irving libro El mundo según Garp
The World According to Garp
John Irving libro A Widow for One Year
A Widow for One Year
John Irving libro El mundo según Garp
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.
John Irving libro El mundo según Garp
The World According to Garp
John Irving: Frases en inglés
John Irving libro A Prayer for Owen Meany
Fuente: A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving libro A Prayer for Owen Meany
Fuente: 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.”
John Irving libro A Prayer for Owen Meany
Fuente: A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving libro A Prayer for Owen Meany
Fuente: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
“The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.”
John Irving libro A Son of the Circus
Fuente: A Son of the Circus

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
John Irving libro The Hotel New Hampshire
Fuente: The Hotel New Hampshire
““People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.””
John Irving libro The Cider House Rules
Variante: People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
Fuente: The Cider House Rules
John Irving libro El mundo según Garp
Fuente: The World According to Garp
“You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
John Irving libro The Hotel New Hampshire
Fuente: The Hotel New Hampshire, ch. 11
John Irving libro The Cider House Rules
Fuente: The Cider House Rules
John Irving libro The Hotel New Hampshire
The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), ch. 6
“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
John Irving libro El mundo según Garp
Fuente: The World According to Garp
John Irving libro A Prayer for Owen Meany
Fuente: A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Keep passing the open windows.”
John Irving libro The Hotel New Hampshire
Fuente: The Hotel New Hampshire
“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
John Irving libro Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
Fuente: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
John Irving libro The Cider House Rules
Fuente: The Cider House Rules
“Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.”
John Irving libro A Prayer for Owen Meany
Fuente: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), ch. 9
“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
John Irving libro El mundo según Garp
Fuente: The World According to Garp]] (1978)
“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”
John Irving libro A Prayer for Owen Meany
Fuente: A Prayer for Owen Meany
“In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”
John Irving libro El mundo según Garp
Fuente: The World According to Garp, ch. 19
John Irving libro A Prayer for Owen Meany
Fuente: A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving libro The Cider House Rules
Fuente: The Cider House Rules
John Irving libro Until I Find You
Fuente: Until I Find You
John Irving libro The Hotel New Hampshire
Fuente: The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving libro A Prayer for Owen Meany
Fuente: A Prayer for Owen Meany
“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.”
John Irving libro A Widow for One Year
Fuente: A Widow for One Year
John Irving libro The Cider House Rules
Fuente: The Cider House Rules

