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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.

John Irving

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.
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Baby Hands Moving
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
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Faults Meany Owen Responsibility
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
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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Exercise Sex Sleep Writing
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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Stories Victim Writing
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
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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Adults Resentment Teenagers
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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Kind Thinking Together
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
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.
JOHN IRVING

Activity Bad Temper

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