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Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

John Irving

A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
JOHN IRVING

Jobs Memories Writing
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
JOHN IRVING

Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
JOHN IRVING

Centered Religion Self
He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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Optimism Quality Risk
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
I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, “I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure.” It doesn’t bother me if people feel that way.
JOHN IRVING

Book People Procedure Way
In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Scene Treatment Voice
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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Eyes Love People Things
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
JOHN IRVING

Behavior Humans Ruthless
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
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
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
JOHN IRVING

Beautiful Kids Men
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
JOHN IRVING

Feet Knows Needs

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