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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

John Irving

I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
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Country Religious Running
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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Heart Normal Symtons
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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Matter Said Something Writing
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
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
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
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 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
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
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

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

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