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  1. John Irving _ The Cider House Rules

    These same people who tell us we must defend the lives of the unborn-they are the same people who seem not so interested in defending anyone but themselves after the accident of birth is complete! These same people who profess their love of the unborn's soul-they don't care to make much of a contribution to the poor, they don't care to offer much assistance to the unwanted or the oppressed! How do they justify such a concern for the fetus and such a lack of concern for unwanted and abused children? They condemn others for the accident of conception; they condemn the poor-as if the poor can help being poor. One way the poor could help themselves would be to be in control of the size of their families. I thought that freedom of choice was obviously democratic-was obviously American!
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  2. John Irving _ The Cider House Rules

    And how do I say 'I miss you'? he wondered - when I don't mean 'I want to come back!'?
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  3. John Irving _ The Cider House Rules

    That was when Angel Wells became a fiction writer, whether he knew it or not. That's when he learned how to make the make-believe matter to him more than real life mattered to him; that's when he learned how to paint a picture that was not real and never would be real, but in order to be believed at all-even on a sunny Indian summer day-it had to be better made and seem more real than real; it had to sound at least possible.
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  4. John Irving _ The Cider House Rules

    Those who plead for the lives of the unborn should consider the lives of the living. ...the unborn are not as wretched or as in need of our assistance as the born! Please take pity on the born!"
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  5. John Irving _ The Cider House Rules

    Uma sociedade democrática condena as pessoas ao acidente da concepção? - esbravejava o Dr. Larch. - O que somos nós...? Macacos? Se esperamos que as pessoas sejam responsáveis por seus filhos, então é preciso lhes dar o direito de optar se querem ou não tê-los. O que vocês estão pensando? Não são apenas loucos! São ogros também!
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  6. John Irving _ The Cider House Rules

    Quando chegou a Portland, já tirara as suas conclusões. Era um obstetra; trazia bebês ao mundo. Os colegas diziam que isso era "a obra de Deus". E era um aborteiro; também salvava as mães. Os colegas diziam que isso era "a obra do demônio"; mas era tudo a obra de Deus para Wilbur Larch. Como a Sra. Maxwell comentara: "A alma de um verdadeiro médico não pode deixar de ser ampla e generosa".
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  7. John Irving _ The Cider House Rules

    My brain is sending poison to my heart," he told Homer...
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  8. John Irving _ The Cider House Rules

    Come amiamo amar le cose per conto di altri! Come amiamo che altri amino le cose tramite i nostri occhi
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  9. John Irving _ The Cider House Rules

    Ogni volta che lanci una lumaca dalla darsena," Ray disse a Homer Wells per canzonarlo, "costringi qualcuno a ricominciare la vita daccapo"."Magari gli faccio un favore," disse Homer Wells, l'orfano.
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  10. John Irving _ The Cider House Rules

    Vano è dire che gli esseri umani dovrebbero contentarsi della tranquillità: occorre loro l'azione; e la creeranno, se non riescono a trovarla."
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  11. John Irving _ The Cider House Rules

    It was in looking at sea gulls that it first occurred to Homer Wells that he was free.
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  12. John Irving _ The Cider House Rules

    His exposure to storytelling, through Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, had ill prepared him for characters who came from and traveled nowhere -- or for stories that made no sense.
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