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“People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“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, The Cider House Rules

“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, what's it matter what they did to you?”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater”
― Roman Polanski

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
― Voltaire

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker