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Knew 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…
- No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years…
- He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
- All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.
- I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever…
- In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals,…
- When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes,…
- but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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