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“… 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
“The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.”
― A Son of the Circus
― A Son of the Circus
“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
“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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