Hago lo que quiero - afirmó Garp -. No le pongas otro nombre. Sólo hago lo que me da la gana... y eso es precisamente lo que hizo mi madre toda su vida, o sea lo que quería hacer.
Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someon...
Dr. Gingrich, who was increasingly fascinated with the leaps of Mrs. Goodhall’s mind, was still marveling over the confusing image of a nonpracticing homosexual; it struck him as a brilliant accusatio...
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.
Come amiamo amar le cose per conto di altri! Come amiamo che altri amino le cose tramite i nostri occhi
Ciocia Marta (....) w obronie demokracji potrafiła stać się tyranem.
Casey recalled how Gail defended herself in the parking lot of the English & Philosophy Building from the unwanted attentions of a lecherous fellow student, who shall remain nameless. ‘Please leave me...
Canon Campbell told me that most smart-ass Canadians tend to move to the United States. I
But miracles don’t c-c-c-cause belief—real miracles don’t m-m-m-make faith out of thin air; you have to already have faith in order to believe in real miracles.
But comedy is ingrained. A writer doesn't choose to be comic. You can choose a plot, or not to have one. You can choose your characters. But comedy is not a choice; it just comes out that way.
Bonkie bit Garp!Garp bit Bonkie
Being wrong about important things is exhausting.
At first it had slashed up the little silk pockets of her purse. Then she found part of an old thermometer container that slipped over the head of the scalpel, capping it like a fountain pen. It was t...
At Owen Meany’s burial, one of Owen’s Sunday school classmates remembers how easy he was to lift up. He was so light—he weighed nothing at all! How could he have been so light? Because God already had...
As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious decisions about the course of their lives; if that made her a feminist, she said, then she guessed sh...
Anyone can be sentimental about the Nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer.
And feeling like a failed sexual predator, because of pregnant Mary…
An aura of fate had marked him. He moved slowly; he often appeared to be lost in thought, or in his imagination—as if his future were predetermined, and he wasn’t resisting it.
Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.
After twenty years in Canada, there are certain American lunatics who still fascinate me.