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They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

John Irving

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
JOHN IRVING

Courses Interesting Lying
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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Book Memories Tears
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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Found Safety Viruses
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Anticipation Excitement Thrill
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
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 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
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
JOHN IRVING

Boiled Life Sentences
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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Cancer Reading Real
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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Activity Bad Temper
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
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
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
JOHN IRVING

Believe Children Church

They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

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They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

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