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This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

John Irving

People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Love People Wind
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
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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Book Memories Tears
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Memorable Running Thinking
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
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
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
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don’t mean that you can’t also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.
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Fun Hurt Mean Stories
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
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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Found Safety Viruses
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

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