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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

John Irving

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
I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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Collaboration Compromise Heart
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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Mean People Religious
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
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
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
It’s a no-win argument – that business of what we’re born with and what our environment does to us. And it’s a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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Environment Growth Winning
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
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
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
The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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Architecture Crafts Writing
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
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Adults Age Kids

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

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