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

John Irving

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Memorable Running Thinking
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
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Care Rumor Stories
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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Adults Resentment Teenagers
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
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
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
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
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
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
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
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
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
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

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

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