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We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.

John Irving

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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Practice Religious Two
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Jobs Memories Writing
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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Adolescence Enough Like
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
You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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Hands Nice Squeezing
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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Eyes Love People Things
Life,” Garp wrote, “is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
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Ends Memories Nihilist
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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Another Day Religious
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
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
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

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