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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.

John Irving

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
… 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
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
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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Cancer Reading Real
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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Book Memories Tears
It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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Matter Said Something Writing
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
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
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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Found Safety Viruses
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life

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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