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The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

John Irving

If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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People Sound Trying
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
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 only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Care Rumor Stories
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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Actor Skins Thinking
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
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
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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Found Safety Viruses
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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Agendas Blind Presidential
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
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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Children Moments Parent

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