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The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.

John Irving

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
JOHN IRVING

Book Long Writing
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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Practice Religious Two
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
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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Mean People Religious
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
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 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
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
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Anticipation Excitement Thrill
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
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.
JOHN IRVING

Anything Dead Remember Watched
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
JOHN IRVING

Sunday Teenage Years
He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
JOHN IRVING

Optimism Quality Risk

The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.

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