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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.

John Irving

I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking
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
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
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
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
JOHN IRVING

Obsessed Obsession Psychology
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
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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Found Safety Viruses
I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
JOHN IRVING

Collaboration Compromise Heart
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
JOHN IRVING

Be Kind Bird Rhinos
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

Kind Thinking Together
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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Actor Skins Thinking
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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Heart Normal Symtons
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
JOHN IRVING

Belief Freedom Religion Violation
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
JOHN IRVING

Hatred Loneliness Self

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