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When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.

John Irving

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.”
JOHN IRVING

Another Day Religious
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
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Anything Dead Remember Watched
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.
JOHN IRVING

Minutes Way Writing
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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Practice Religious Two
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
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
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.
JOHN IRVING

Imagination Interesting Thinking
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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Memories Monsters Thinking
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
Keep passing the open windows.
JOHN IRVING

Depression Encouraging Life
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People

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