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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 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
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
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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Adults Resentment Teenagers
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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Cancer Reading Real
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
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Dumb Monkeys Voters
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
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Husband Oxygen Thinking
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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Dread Gardener Size

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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