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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

John Irving

The lie, of course, is more interesting.
JOHN IRVING

Courses Interesting Lying
No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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Chiefly Lived Mind Mine
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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Adventure Everybody Father Real
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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Coincidence Novel Young
In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Scene Treatment Voice
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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Country Names Play
…I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
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Doors Growing Long
I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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Change More Patient Waiting
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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Adolescence Enough Like
Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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Beautiful Kids Men

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

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