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There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

John Irving

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
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
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
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
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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Memories Monsters Thinking
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
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
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
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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Aware Constantly Reason
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
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
… 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
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
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

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