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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you

John Irving

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
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
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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Actor Skins Thinking
You don’t want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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Character Giving People
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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Next Novel Writing
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
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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Majority People Population
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
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
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
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
When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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Enough Smart Writing
If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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Another Day Religious
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

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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