It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
JOHN IRVINGPeople only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
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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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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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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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You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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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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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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