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

John Irving

Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
JOHN IRVING

Die Dies Everybody
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
JOHN IRVING

Deceived Deceiving Hurt
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
JOHN IRVING

Mean People Suicide
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.
JOHN IRVING

Agendas Blind Presidential
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
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Faults Meany Owen Responsibility
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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Majority People Population
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.
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Collaboration Compromise Heart
The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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Love Reason Writing
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
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Eye Mirrors Repetition Views
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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Adolescence Enough Like
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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Adults Resentment Teenagers
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
JOHN IRVING

Heart Normal Symtons

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