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

John Irving

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
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
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Dumb Monkeys Voters
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
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
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
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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Majority People Population
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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Mean People Religious
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
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
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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Funeral Hymns Thinking
No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
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Baby Hands Moving
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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Ability Burden Feels
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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Beautiful Kids Men

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