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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.

John Irving

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
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
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
JOHN IRVING

Funeral Hymns Thinking
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
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
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
I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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Change More Patient Waiting
YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
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Anything Dead Remember Watched
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
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
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
JOHN IRVING

Civilization Perception Years
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.
JOHN IRVING

Collaboration Compromise Heart
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
JOHN IRVING

Faults Meany Owen Responsibility
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
JOHN IRVING

Aware Constantly Reason

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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