He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
JOHN IRVINGI’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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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.
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Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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