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Better Quotes by John Irving
- Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into…
- I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a…
- And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary…
- Imagining something is better than remembering something.
- Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be…
- Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
- Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she…
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