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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

Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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Cancer Reading Real
THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
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Dumb Monkeys Voters
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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Adolescence Enough Like
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
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’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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Change More Patient Waiting
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
Life,” Garp wrote, “is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
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Ends Memories Nihilist
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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Next Novel Writing
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt

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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