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It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.

John Irving

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
JOHN IRVING

Faults Meany Owen Responsibility
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
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
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
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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Coincidence Novel Young
You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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Country Names Play
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
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Husband Oxygen Thinking
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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Architecture Crafts Writing
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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Practice Religious Two
You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
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Eye Mirrors Repetition Views
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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Hands Nice Squeezing

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.

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