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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

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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Optimism Quality Risk
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
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
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
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Husband Oxygen Thinking
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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Memorable Thinking Trying
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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Found Safety Viruses
You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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Country Names Play
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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Activity Bad Temper
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
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
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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Adventure Everybody Father Real

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