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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

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 main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Love People Wind
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
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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Beautiful Kids Men
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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Cousin Father Years
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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Kind Thinking Together
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
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
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation

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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