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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

If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
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
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Care Rumor Stories
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
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
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
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.
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Sunday Teenage Years
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
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
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
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
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
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
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

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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