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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

No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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Chiefly Lived Mind Mine
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
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Anticipation Excitement Thrill
We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.
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Country Rewards Way
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
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
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
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 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
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors 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
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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Coincidence Novel Young
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Centered Religion Self
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
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret

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