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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.

John Irving

The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
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Husband Oxygen Thinking
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
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
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’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
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
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
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Sunday Teenage Years
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
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Anything Dead Remember Watched
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us — not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
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Childhood Events Loss
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing

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