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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.

John Irving

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
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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Mean People Religious
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
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
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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Finished Process Product
In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Scene Treatment Voice
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
I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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Collaboration Compromise Heart
Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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Beautiful Kids Men
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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Energy Father Grandmother
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
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
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
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
JOHN IRVING

Care Rumor Stories

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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