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The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

John Irving

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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Adults Resentment Teenagers
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
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Sunday Teenage Years
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Love People Wind
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
…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
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
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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Book Memories Tears
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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Collaboration Compromise Heart
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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Chiefly Lived Mind Mine

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

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