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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.

John Irving

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
You don’t want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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Character Giving People
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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Cancer Reading Real
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
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
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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Decision Finals Unnecessarily
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
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.
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Scene Treatment Voice
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Centered Religion Self
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People

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