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What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.

John Irving

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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Coincidence Novel Young
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
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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Cancer Reading Real
You don’t want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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Character Giving People
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
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
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
JOHN IRVING

Phrases Thinking Today
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

What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.

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