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The lie, of course, is more interesting.

John Irving

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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Another Day Religious
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
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
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
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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Funeral Hymns Thinking
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
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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Finished Process Product
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
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
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
We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.
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Country Rewards Way
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

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