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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.

John Irving

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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Activity Bad Temper
What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Phrases Thinking Today
Life,” Garp wrote, “is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
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Ends Memories Nihilist
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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Kind Thinking Together
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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Children Moments Parent
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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Eyes Love People Things
I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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Change More Patient Waiting
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
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
I don’t begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
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Finals Knowing Usually Voice
THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
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Dumb Monkeys Voters
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Care Rumor Stories
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
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
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

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