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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.

John Irving

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
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
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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Mean People Religious
So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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Fashion Real Term Work
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
What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Phrases Thinking Today
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.
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Exercise Sex Sleep Writing
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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Collaboration Compromise Heart
You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
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Eye Mirrors Repetition Views
If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
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Country Religious Running
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious

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