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The lie, of course, is more interesting.

John Irving

You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
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Eye Mirrors Repetition Views
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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Eyes Love People Things
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Phrases Thinking Today
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
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
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Care Rumor Stories
You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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Hands Nice Squeezing
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
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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Agendas Blind Presidential
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
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

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