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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

I don’t begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
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Finals Knowing Usually Voice
Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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Death Dramatic Indulgent Waiting
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Love People Wind
The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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Dread Gardener Size
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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Finished Process Product
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
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
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
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
In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Scene Treatment Voice
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
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.
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Kind Thinking Together

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