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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

John Irving

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
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Sunday Teenage Years
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
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
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
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
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
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Husband Oxygen Thinking
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 is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
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
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
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
I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
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Adults Age Kids
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
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 we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

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