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John Irving

In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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Memorable Thinking Trying
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Anticipation Excitement Thrill
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
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
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 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
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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Aware Constantly Reason
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
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
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Faults Meany Owen Responsibility
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
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
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
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness

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