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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

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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Adventure Everybody Father Real
It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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Matter Said Something Writing
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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Eyes Love People Things
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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Hands Nice Squeezing
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
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Be Kind Bird Rhinos
…I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
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Doors Growing Long
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
The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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Dread Gardener Size
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
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Minutes Way Writing
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
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
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking

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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