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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

Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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Energy Father Grandmother
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
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Book Long Writing
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
All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.
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Judging Superiors Tolerance
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
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
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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Agendas Blind Presidential
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written

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