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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

John Irving

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Anticipation Excitement Thrill
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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Memorable Thinking Trying
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.
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Exercise Sex Sleep Writing
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
… 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
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
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us — not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
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Childhood Events Loss
The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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Dread Gardener Size
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
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
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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Memories Monsters Thinking
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

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

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