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It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.

John Irving

I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking
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
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
A novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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Diaries Floor Wall Writing
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
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
In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Scene Treatment Voice
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
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
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
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
Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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Death Dramatic Indulgent Waiting

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