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There’s nothing as scary as the future.

John Irving

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
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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Agendas Blind Presidential
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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Ability Burden Feels
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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Optimism Quality Risk
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.
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Actor Skins Thinking
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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Hair Ocean Powerful
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
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Minutes Way Writing
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Anticipation Excitement Thrill
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading

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