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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

John Irving

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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Funeral Hymns Thinking
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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Adolescence Enough Like
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
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
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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Change More Patient Waiting
It’s a no-win argument – that business of what we’re born with and what our environment does to us. And it’s a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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Environment Growth Winning
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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Adventure Everybody Father Real
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 gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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Dread Gardener Size
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide

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