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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

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
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
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Care Rumor Stories
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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Memories Monsters Thinking
Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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Beautiful Kids Men
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
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.
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Sunday Teenage Years
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
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
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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Finished Process Product
…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
JOHN IRVING

Innocent Study Vengeance

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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