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If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.

John Irving

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
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
You don’t want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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Character Giving People
…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
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
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
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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Adolescence Enough Like
Life,” Garp wrote, “is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
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Ends Memories Nihilist
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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Kind Thinking Together
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading

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