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

John Irving

You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
JOHN IRVING

Eye Mirrors Repetition Views
Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
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Musical Tennis Wrestling
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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Practice Religious Two
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
JOHN IRVING

Baby Hands Moving
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Memorable Running Thinking
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
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
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
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
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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Cousin Father Years
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
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

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