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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.

John Irving

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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Death Dramatic Indulgent Waiting
No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
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Baby Hands Moving
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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Hair Ocean Powerful
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
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
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
…I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
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Doors Growing Long
…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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Architecture Crafts Writing
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

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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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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