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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

John Irving

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
JOHN IRVING

Practice Religious Two
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
JOHN IRVING

People Sound Trying
It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
JOHN IRVING

Matter Said Something Writing
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
JOHN IRVING

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

Courses Interesting Lying
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
JOHN IRVING

Die Dies Everybody
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
JOHN IRVING

Moral Pride Sin
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
JOHN IRVING

Belief Freedom Religion Violation
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
JOHN IRVING

Bears Practice Promise
Keep passing the open windows.
JOHN IRVING

Depression Encouraging Life
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
Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
JOHN IRVING

Musical Tennis Wrestling
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
JOHN IRVING

Answers People Ready
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
JOHN IRVING

Mean People Suicide
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
JOHN IRVING

Next Novel Writing

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