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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

John Irving

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
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
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
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
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
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.”
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Another Day Religious
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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Energy Father Grandmother
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
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.
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Practice Religious Two
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
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Baby Hands Moving
YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
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Anything Dead Remember Watched

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