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They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

John Irving

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Jobs Memories Writing
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
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
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
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
Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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Death Dramatic Indulgent Waiting
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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Aware Constantly Reason
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Memorable Running Thinking
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Scene Treatment Voice

They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

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