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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

Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
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
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
… 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
When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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Enough Smart Writing
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
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
I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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Collaboration Compromise Heart
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
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
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
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
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
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

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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