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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

John Irving

THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
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Dumb Monkeys Voters
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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Heart Normal Symtons
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
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
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.
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Judging Superiors Tolerance
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
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
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
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
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
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 don’t begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
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Finals Knowing Usually Voice
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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Majority People Population

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

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