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

John Irving

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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Optimism Quality Risk
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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Memories Monsters Thinking
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
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Be Kind Bird Rhinos
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
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Centered Religion Self
So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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Fashion Real Term Work
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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Next Novel 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
THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
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Dumb Monkeys Voters
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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Cousin Father Years
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

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

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