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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.

John Irving

I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
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
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
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
In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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Memorable Thinking Trying
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
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
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
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
All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.
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Judging Superiors Tolerance
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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Finished Process Product
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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Ability Burden Feels
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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Cousin Father Years

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.

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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.

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