How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
JOHN IRVINGPatriotism 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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He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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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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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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The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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