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I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.

John Irving

You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
JOHN IRVING

Feet Knows Needs
What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
JOHN IRVING

Phrases Thinking Today
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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Adults Resentment Teenagers
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
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
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
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
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
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, “I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure.” It doesn’t bother me if people feel that way.
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Book People Procedure Way
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
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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Stories Victim Writing
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
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
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
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

I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.

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I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.

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