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A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.

John Irving

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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Memorable Thinking Trying
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
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
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
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
It’s a no-win argument – that business of what we’re born with and what our environment does to us. And it’s a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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Environment Growth Winning
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.
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Exercise Sex Sleep Writing
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
We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.
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Country Rewards Way
I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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Change More Patient Waiting
… 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

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.

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