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If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”

John Irving

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.
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Optimism Quality Risk
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
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
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Country Religious Running
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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Imagination Interesting Thinking
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
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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Decision Finals Unnecessarily
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
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Adults Age Kids
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
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
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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Another Day Religious
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long

If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”

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