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A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.

John Irving

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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Adventure Everybody Father Real
Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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Death Dramatic Indulgent Waiting
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
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, “I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure.” It doesn’t bother me if people feel that way.
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Book People Procedure Way
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
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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Ability Burden Feels
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Memorable Running Thinking
I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
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Adults Age Kids
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
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
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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People Sound Trying

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.

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