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I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.

John Irving

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
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.
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Funeral Hymns Thinking
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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Coincidence Novel Young
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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Energy Father Grandmother
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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Heart Normal Symtons
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
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
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
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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Aware Constantly Reason
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral

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