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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

John Irving

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
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
I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, “I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure.” It doesn’t bother me if people feel that way.
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Book People Procedure Way
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Love People Wind
I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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Change More Patient Waiting
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
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
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
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
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
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
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
I don’t begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
JOHN IRVING

Finals Knowing Usually Voice

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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