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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

John Irving

I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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Collaboration Compromise Heart
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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Cancer Reading Real
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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People Sound Trying
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
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
It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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Matter Said Something Writing
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
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
So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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Fashion Real Term Work
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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Adventure Everybody Father Real
If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
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Country Religious Running
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 you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People

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