If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
JOHN IRVINGYou 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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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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… 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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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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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Life is serious but art is fun!
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People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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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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There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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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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What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Keep passing the open windows.
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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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