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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.

John Irving

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
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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Change More Patient Waiting
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
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
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
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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Coincidence Novel Young
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Anticipation Excitement Thrill
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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Collaboration Compromise Heart
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Centered Religion Self
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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Love Reason Writing
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
A novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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Diaries Floor Wall Writing
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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Next Novel Writing

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