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John Irving

I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
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
Life,” Garp wrote, “is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
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Ends Memories Nihilist
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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Agendas Blind Presidential
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
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
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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Funeral Hymns Thinking
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Anticipation Excitement Thrill
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
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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Eyes Love People Things
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
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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Memories Monsters Thinking
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
… 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

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