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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.

John Irving

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
A novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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Diaries Floor Wall Writing
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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Dread Gardener Size
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
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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Cousin Father Years
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
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
I don’t begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
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Finals Knowing Usually Voice
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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Energy Father Grandmother
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.

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