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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.

John Irving

… 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
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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Ability Burden Feels
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Memorable Running Thinking
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
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
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
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
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
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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Adolescence Enough Like
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
I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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Imagination Interesting Thinking
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
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral

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