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“He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“It's natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you can't interfere with people you love anymore than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.”
― John Irving, A Son of the Circus

“The lie, of course, is more interesting.”
― John Irving