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There’s nothing as scary as the future.

John Irving

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
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
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
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
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
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 NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
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Dumb Monkeys Voters
…I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
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Doors Growing Long
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
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Book Long Writing
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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Country Names Play
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
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

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