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How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.

John Irving

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
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
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
It’s a no-win argument – that business of what we’re born with and what our environment does to us. And it’s a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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Environment Growth Winning
The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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Architecture Crafts Writing
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
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Book Long Writing
Life,” Garp wrote, “is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
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Ends Memories Nihilist
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
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Faults Meany Owen Responsibility
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
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
I don’t begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
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Finals Knowing Usually Voice
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Memorable Running Thinking

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