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You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

John Irving

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
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Jobs Memories Writing
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
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Memorable Running Thinking
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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Ability Burden Feels
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
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
You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
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Eye Mirrors Repetition Views
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
I don’t begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
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Finals Knowing Usually Voice
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

You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

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You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

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