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There’s nothing as scary as the future.

John Irving

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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Ability Burden Feels
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
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
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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Imagination Interesting Thinking
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
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Sunday Teenage Years
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.
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Exercise Sex Sleep Writing
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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Children Moments Parent
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
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Civilization Perception Years

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