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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.

John Irving

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
JOHN IRVING

Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
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
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
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.
JOHN IRVING

Ability Burden Feels
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
JOHN IRVING

Die Dies Everybody
In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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Memorable Thinking Trying
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
I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
JOHN IRVING

Collaboration Compromise Heart
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
JOHN IRVING

Obsessed Obsession Psychology
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
JOHN IRVING

Four Negotiation Years
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
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
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.
JOHN IRVING

Actor Skins Thinking
I don’t begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
JOHN IRVING

Finals Knowing Usually Voice

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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