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Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.

John Irving

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
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
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
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
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
In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Scene Treatment Voice
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
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
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
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Anything Dead Remember Watched
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
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
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
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
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
We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.
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Country Rewards Way

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