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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.

John Irving

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
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
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Minutes Way Writing
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
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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Actor Skins Thinking
You don’t want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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Character Giving People
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
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
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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Majority People Population
It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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Matter Said Something Writing
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
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World

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