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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

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
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
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Centered Religion Self
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
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
No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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Chiefly Lived Mind Mine
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
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Creative Maps Writing
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
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
… 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
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
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self

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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