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And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.

And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.
– John Irving

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  2. Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn’t get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that’s okay. – Keith Ablow
  3. I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint. – DA Paul
  4. She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face. – Amit Kalantri
  5. Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. – Markus Zusak
  6. Only this time, now that she knew what it felt like to kiss him, she didn’t want to slap that look off his face, she wanted to kiss it off. – Mairead Falcon
  7. Honesty: what a refreshing slap in the face it is. – TM Brenner
  8. Had Zach just apologised for kissing her? She didn’t know whether to cry or slap his face. ~Maddie – Monique DeVere
  9. This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on. – John Irving
  10. Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he’d heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound – that’s what he’d heard. – John Irving
  11. A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit. – William Shakespeare
  12. Fair only counts with people who are fair. – Sharon Law Tucker
  13. If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up. – Michael Treanor
  14. Fair warning, baby. I’m in the mood for a fight, and I wouldn’t play fair or nice.–Niall Hunter to Khloe Richardson – Naima Simone
  15. Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
  16. Well, someone slap my ???? and give me a hero cookie. (Nick) – Sherrilyn Kenyon
  17. If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also…but of course if you were able to stand soberly after the first slap. – Toba Beta
  18. Females are very simple, with them, yes means yes, & no means yes, & no means no, & no means maybe, but maybe means yes, & maybe means no! – Eyden I
  19. Maybe, it wasn’t stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn’t know how. – Shannon L Alder
  20. Maybe destiny isn’t something that just happens. Maybe destiny is something you do. Maybe destiny is like a seed and it grows. – Liesl Shurtliff
  21. Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion. – Dennis Lehane
  22. …maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved. – Elena Ferrante
  23. Maybe someday, I’d find someone who’d prove he really loved me. Someone who’d hold me rather than let me fall. Someone who’d never lie to me. – JC Reed
  24. Smile on the face or innocence on the face is as attractive as beauty on the face. – Amit Kalantri
  25. They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy. – Anas Nin
  26. Life is serious but art is fun! – John Irving
  27. Half my life is an act of revision. – John Irving
  28. Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy. – John Irving
  29. What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses. – John Irving
  30. You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them. – John Irving
  31. but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive. – John Irving
  32. Garp didn’t want a daughter because of men. Because of bad men, certainly; but even, he thought, because of men like me. – John Irving
  33. Self-hatred is worse than loneliness. – John Irving
  34. It’s because even a good man can’t always be right, that we need … rules. – John Irving
  35. If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. – John Irving
  36. They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. – John Irving
  37. Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you-they can’t turn you away. – John Irving
  38. …nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something. – John Irving
  39. …the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar. – John Irving
  40. …the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar. – John Irving

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