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

John Irving

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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Beautiful Kids Men
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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Decision Finals Unnecessarily
What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Phrases Thinking Today
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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Stories Victim Writing
If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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Another Day Religious
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
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

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

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