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John Irving

Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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Cancer Reading Real
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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Finished Process Product
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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Found Safety Viruses
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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Majority People Population
It’s a no-win argument – that business of what we’re born with and what our environment does to us. And it’s a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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Environment Growth Winning
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
No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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Chiefly Lived Mind Mine
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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Hair Ocean Powerful
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking
No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
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Baby Hands Moving
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

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