“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
“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
“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
“… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules
“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
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