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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."”

John Irving

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.”

John Irving

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

John Irving: Citations en anglais

“Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.”

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John Irving In One Person

Source: In One Person

“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.”

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John Irving livre The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.”

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John Irving livre Last Night in Twisted River

Source: Last Night in Twisted River

“Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water… remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”

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John Irving livre Le Monde selon Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

“Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.”

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John Irving livre Le Monde selon Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

“The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.”

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“Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.”

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John Irving In One Person

Source: In One Person

“And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.”

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John Irving In One Person

Source: In One Person

“Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.”

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John Irving livre Last Night in Twisted River

Source: Last Night in Twisted River

“This is a writer’s lesson:
To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.”

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John Irving livre Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

“This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“You can't learn everything you need to know legally.”

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John Irving livre A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year (1998), part II, ch. 7

“Being wrong about important things is exhausting.”

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John Irving livre The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“…there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old…”

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John Irving livre A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year

“As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.”

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John Irving livre The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.”

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John Irving livre The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you.”

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John Irving livre The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

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John Irving livre Le Monde selon Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

“If pride is a sin… moral pride is the greatest sin.”

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John Irving livre The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.”

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John Irving livre Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

“Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.”

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John Irving livre The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.”

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John Irving livre A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year

“A reader told me recently, in London, said that 'well, I read that you write the last sentence first, so I always read your last sentence first.' And I said, 'oh, no, you're not supposed to do that.”

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John Irving

“[On his process for writing novels:] I can't imagine what the first sentence is, I can't imagine where I want the reader to enter the story, if I don't know where the reader is going to leave the story. So once I know what the last thing the reader hears is, I can work my way backward, like following a roadmap in reverse.”

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John Irving

A modern novelist of Dickensian tradition, Spotlight, Russia Today, January 24, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ost0Gyl2V1I,

“The kind of people claiming to be in communication with God today … they are enough to drive a real Christian crazy!”

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John Irving livre A Prayer for Owen Meany

A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

“He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you."”

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John Irving livre Le Monde selon Garp

The World According to Garp (1978), ch. 5

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