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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

John Irving

Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
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
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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Mean People Religious
I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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Change More Patient Waiting
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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Funeral Hymns Thinking
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it – rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.
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Stories Want Writing
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us — not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
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Childhood Events Loss
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
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
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Creative Maps Writing
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
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
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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Agendas Blind Presidential

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

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