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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

Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
JOHN IRVING

Care Rumor Stories
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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Chiefly Lived Mind Mine
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Phrases Thinking Today
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
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
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
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Creative Maps Writing
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.
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Exercise Sex Sleep Writing
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
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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Optimism Quality Risk
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
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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Dumb Monkeys Voters
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
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self

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