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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

John Irving

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
We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.
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Country Rewards Way
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
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
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Jobs Memories Writing
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
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
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
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
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

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