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Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

John Irving

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
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
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Anything Dead Remember Watched
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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Adventure Everybody Father Real
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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Ability Burden Feels
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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Book Memories Tears
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
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Book Long 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

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

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