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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

John Irving

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
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
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
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
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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Finished Process Product
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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Heart Normal Symtons
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.
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Exercise Sex Sleep Writing
…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
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Sunday Teenage Years
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
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
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
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive

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