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In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

John Irving

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
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
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
The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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Dread Gardener Size
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
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Jobs Memories Writing
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Centered Religion Self
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
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
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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Children Moments Parent
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
We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.
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Country Rewards Way

In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

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In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

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