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John Irving

“It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?”

John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
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