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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

John Irving

When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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Eyes Love People Things
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
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
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
Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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Death Dramatic Indulgent Waiting
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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Aware Constantly Reason
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
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Care Rumor Stories
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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Matter Said Something Writing
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
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
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 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

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

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