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There’s nothing as scary as the future.

John Irving

There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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Aware Constantly Reason
The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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Dread Gardener Size
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Centered Religion Self
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
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
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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Heart Normal Symtons
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
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
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
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
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don’t mean that you can’t also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.
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Fun Hurt Mean Stories
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
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Be Kind Bird Rhinos

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