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

John Irving

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
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
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
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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Cousin Father Years
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
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Minutes Way Writing
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
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Civilization Perception Years
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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Death Dramatic Indulgent Waiting
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Anticipation Excitement Thrill
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
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
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long

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