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There’s nothing as scary as the future.

John Irving

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
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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Change More Patient Waiting
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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Practice Religious Two
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
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
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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Hair Ocean Powerful
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
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
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
If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
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Country Religious Running
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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Memorable Thinking Trying

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