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…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

John Irving

So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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Fashion Real Term Work
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
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.
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Civilization Perception Years
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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Optimism Quality Risk
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Centered Religion Self
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
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Phrases Thinking Today
No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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Chiefly Lived Mind Mine
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
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Eye Mirrors Repetition Views
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness

…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

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