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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

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Centered Religion Self
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
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
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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Husband Oxygen Thinking
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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Heart Normal Symtons
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
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
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero 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
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
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
When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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Enough Smart Writing

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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