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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

John Irving

I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
JOHN IRVING

Funeral Hymns Thinking
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
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
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Phrases Thinking Today
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
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
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
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
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
They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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Kind Thinking Together
…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
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
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
JOHN IRVING

Love People Wind

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

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