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

John Irving

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Love People Wind
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
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
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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Activity Bad Temper
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
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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Love Reason Writing
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
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Faults Meany Owen Responsibility
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
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
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World

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

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