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The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.

John Irving

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
JOHN IRVING

Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
JOHN IRVING

Believe Children Church
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
JOHN IRVING

Asking Giving Please
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
JOHN IRVING

Found Safety Viruses
If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
JOHN IRVING

Another Day Religious
Keep passing the open windows.
JOHN IRVING

Depression Encouraging Life
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
JOHN IRVING

Combat Comforting Loneliness
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
JOHN IRVING

Centered Religion Self
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
JOHN IRVING

Eyes Love People Things
All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.
JOHN IRVING

Judging Superiors Tolerance
So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
JOHN IRVING

Fashion Real Term Work
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
JOHN IRVING

Courses Interesting Lying
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
JOHN IRVING

Actor Skins Thinking
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
JOHN IRVING

Nervous Not Afraid People
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
JOHN IRVING

Adults Resentment Teenagers
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
JOHN IRVING

Memories Monsters Thinking

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