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

John Irving

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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Found Safety Viruses
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Love People Wind
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
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
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
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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Energy Father Grandmother
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
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
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
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
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
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

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