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It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

John Irving

…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
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
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
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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Adults Resentment Teenagers
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
…I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
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Doors Growing Long
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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Cousin Father Years
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
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Eye Mirrors Repetition Views
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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Eyes Love People Things
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
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.
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Minutes Way Writing
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
JOHN IRVING

Sunday Teenage Years

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

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