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If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.

John Irving

You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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Hands Nice Squeezing
Keep passing the open windows.
JOHN IRVING

Depression Encouraging Life
We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.
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Country Rewards Way
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
All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.
JOHN IRVING

Judging Superiors Tolerance
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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Practice Religious Two
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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Adolescence Enough Like
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
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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Next Novel Writing
Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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Beautiful Kids Men
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
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Civilization Perception Years
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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Finished Process Product
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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Cousin Father Years

If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.

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