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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.

John Irving

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
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
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
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
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
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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Agendas Blind Presidential
It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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Matter Said Something Writing
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
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
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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Eyes Love People Things
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters

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