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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

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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Children Moments Parent
What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Phrases Thinking Today
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
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
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
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
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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Decision Finals Unnecessarily
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
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
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
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
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long

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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