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“Le romancier est comme un médecin qui ne s'occuperait que des incurables. Et nous sommes tous des incurables.”

“Je ne mène pas une vie de fou. Je n'ai pas besoin de "dissiper les nuages" tous les soirs, ni toutes les semaines, ni même une fois par mois. La plupart du temps, le soir, je ne regarde même pas mon téléphone. D'autres fois pourtant, cet appareil semble convoquer tous les gens injoignables de mon passé. […] Tel est le téléphone, certains soirs : le passé injoignable, les morts qui réclament de donner leur avis.”

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La petite amie imaginaire

“[…] l’art du romancier est la capacité d’imaginer de façon vraie.”

John Irving livre Le Monde selon Garp

Le Monde selon Garp

“L'un de ses détracteurs ayant affirmé que ce qu'il faisait ne plaisait sûrement pas à Dieu, Mauriac eut cette réponse admirable : "Dieu, monsieur, se soucie peu de ce que nous écrivons; mais lorsque c'est bien écrit, il s'en sert."”

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La petite amie imaginaire

“Eric [Ross] et moi […] n'avons pas aimé et n'aimons toujours pas Vienne. C'est une petite ville; son antisémitisme notoire n'est qu'un aspect parmi d'autres de son provincialisme mesquin, où règne une xénophobie généralisée, une défiance qui peut aller jusqu'à la haine de tous les éléments extérieurs. "Des geht bei uns nicht", disent les Autrichiens. "Cela ne s'accorde pas avec nous". le mot Ausländer, étranger, y est toujours péjoratif. Quant à la Gemütlichkeit viennoise, c'est une attraction touristique, la fausse gentillesse d'un peuple fondamentalement unhöflich.”

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La petite amie imaginaire

“Eric et moi, jeunes Américains idéalistes, ne pouvions rien faire de plus que de tendre un miroir à cette inexplicable tolérance de l'intolérance.”

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À propos de l'antisémitisme en Autriche.
La petite amie imaginaire

John Irving: Citations en anglais

“Logic is relative.”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.”

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John Irving livre Le Monde selon Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”

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John Irving livre Le Monde selon Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

“Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?”

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John Irving livre The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Half my life is an act of revision.”

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“I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.”

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John Irving livre A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year

“Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.”

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John Irving livre The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.”

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“Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.”

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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 livre The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Sorrow floats.”

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John Irving livre The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: 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 livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: 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 livre The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: 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 livre The Cider House Rules

Source: 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 livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: 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 livre Until I Find You

Source: 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 livre A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year

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

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John Irving livre Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

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

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”

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

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: 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 livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“We are formed by what we desire”

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John Irving In One Person

Source: 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 livre Le Monde selon Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

“It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.”

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John Irving livre A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year

“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 livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

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

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John Irving livre Until I Find You

Source: Until I Find You

“If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?”

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John Irving

Source: My Movie Business: A Memoir

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