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

John Irving

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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People Sound Trying
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
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us — not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
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Childhood Events Loss
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
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
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
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
It’s a no-win argument – that business of what we’re born with and what our environment does to us. And it’s a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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Environment Growth Winning
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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Practice Religious Two
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 certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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Book Memories Tears

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