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

John Irving

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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Architecture Crafts Writing
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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Love Reason Writing
…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
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
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
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
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
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
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People

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