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My brain is sending poison to my heart.

John Irving

There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
JOHN IRVING

Aware Constantly Reason
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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People Sound Trying
…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
Keep passing the open windows.
JOHN IRVING

Depression Encouraging Life
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
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
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.
JOHN IRVING

Eye Mirrors Repetition Views
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
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Jobs Memories Writing
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
When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
JOHN IRVING

Enough Smart Writing
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
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Husband Oxygen Thinking
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
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.
JOHN IRVING

Scene Treatment Voice

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