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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

John Irving

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
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
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
The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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Love Reason Writing
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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Activity Bad Temper
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
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
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
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
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
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

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

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