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Life is an X-rated soap opera.

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
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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Energy Father Grandmother
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
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
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
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
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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Adolescence Enough Like
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
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
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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Finished Process Product
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
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Book Long Writing
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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Aware Constantly Reason
The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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Love Reason Writing
I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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Imagination Interesting Thinking
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life

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