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I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.

John Irving

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Anticipation Excitement Thrill
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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Eyes Love People Things
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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Adults Resentment Teenagers
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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Majority People Population
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Jobs Memories Writing
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.
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Love People Wind
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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Hair Ocean Powerful
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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Ability Burden Feels
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Care Rumor Stories
I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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Imagination Interesting Thinking

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