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

John Irving

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
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
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Minutes Way Writing
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
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Musical Tennis Wrestling
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
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
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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Hair Ocean Powerful
Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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Death Dramatic Indulgent Waiting
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
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Be Kind Bird Rhinos
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
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
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
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People

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

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