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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

John Irving

People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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Actor Skins Thinking
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
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
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
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
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Civilization Perception Years
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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Next Novel Writing
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
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
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
The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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Love Reason Writing
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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Decision Finals Unnecessarily
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

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