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

John Irving

The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
JOHN IRVING

Character Differences Important
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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Hair Ocean Powerful
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
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Baby Hands Moving
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
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
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
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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Chiefly Lived Mind Mine
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Anticipation Excitement Thrill
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

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

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