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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

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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Dumb Monkeys Voters
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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Book Memories Tears
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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Practice Religious Two
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it – rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.
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Stories Want Writing
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
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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Funeral Hymns Thinking
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
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
So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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Fashion Real Term Work
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
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.
JOHN IRVING

Energy Father Grandmother

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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