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The lie, of course, is more interesting.

John Irving

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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Coincidence Novel Young
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
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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Book Memories Tears
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
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
…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
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
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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Enough Smart Writing
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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Actor Skins Thinking
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

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