John Irving Quotes

But I Suddenly Realized What Small Towns Are. They Are Places Where You Grow Up With The Peculiar
You Live Next To The Strange And The Unlikely For So Long That Everything And Everyone Become Commonplace. My Cousins Were Both Small-towners And Outsiders; They Had Not Grown Up With Own Meany, Who Was So Strange To Them That He Inspired Awe - Yet They Were No More Likely To Fall Upon Him, Or To Devise Ways To Torture Him, Than It Was Likely For A Herd Of Cattle To Attack A Cat.

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