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Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

John Irving

When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
JOHN IRVING

Belief Freedom Religion Violation
…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
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
JOHN IRVING

Future Nothing Scary
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
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
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.
JOHN IRVING

Death Dramatic Indulgent Waiting
YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
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Anything Dead Remember Watched
My life is a reading list.
JOHN IRVING

Life Lists Reading
…I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
JOHN IRVING

Doors Growing Long
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
JOHN IRVING

Centered Religion Self
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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Enough Smart Writing
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!
JOHN IRVING

Dumb Monkeys Voters
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
JOHN IRVING

Heart Normal Symtons
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.
JOHN IRVING

Exercise Sex Sleep Writing

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

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