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“It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,” Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.” Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he’d come a long way and still had a long way to go.”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules
“This is a writer’s lesson:
To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.”
― Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.”
― Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
“Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.”
― My Movie Business: A Memoir
― My Movie Business: A Memoir
“If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
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