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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

John Irving

In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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Memorable Thinking Trying
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
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Minutes Way Writing
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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People Sound Trying
I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
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Adults Age Kids
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
When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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Enough Smart Writing
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Care Rumor Stories
I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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Imagination Interesting 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
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
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
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
No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
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Baby Hands Moving
A novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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Diaries Floor Wall Writing

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

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