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A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to pray. Just when I start to hear the prayer, everyone pops up to sing. And what does the stupid sermon have to do with God? Who knows what God thinks of current events? Who cares?
From A Prayer for Owen Meany
Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.
From A Prayer for Owen Meany
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
From A Prayer for Owen Meany
The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.
From In One Person
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
From A Prayer for Owen Meany
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
From The Hotel New Hampshire
In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me
From The World According to Garp
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
From The World According to Garp
A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to pray. Just when I start to hear the prayer, everyone pops up to sing. And what does the stupid sermon have to do with God? Who knows what God thinks of current events? Who cares?
From A Prayer for Owen Meany
Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.
From A Prayer for Owen Meany
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
From A Prayer for Owen Meany
The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.
From In One Person
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
From A Prayer for Owen Meany
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
From The Hotel New Hampshire
In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me
From The World According to Garp
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
From The World According to Garp
A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to pray. Just when I start to hear the prayer, everyone pops up to sing. And what does the stupid sermon have to do with God? Who knows what God thinks of current events? Who cares?
From A Prayer for Owen Meany
Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.
From A Prayer for Owen Meany
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
From A Prayer for Owen Meany
The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.
From In One Person
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
From A Prayer for Owen Meany
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
From The Hotel New Hampshire
In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me
From The World According to Garp
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
From The World According to Garp