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How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.

John Irving

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Memorable Running Thinking
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it – rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.
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Stories Want Writing
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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Activity Bad Temper
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Jobs Memories Writing
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
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
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Husband Oxygen Thinking
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
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
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
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church

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