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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.

John Irving

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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Optimism Quality Risk
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
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
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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Memorable Thinking Trying
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
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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Coincidence Novel Young
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
JOHN IRVING

Centered Religion Self
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.
JOHN IRVING

Agendas Blind Presidential
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
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Minutes Way Writing
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
JOHN IRVING

Funeral Hymns Thinking
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide

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