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

John Irving

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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Love Reason Writing
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
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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Decision Finals Unnecessarily
Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
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Musical Tennis Wrestling
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
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.
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Actor Skins Thinking
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
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
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Adults Age Kids
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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Majority People Population
If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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Another Day Religious
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.
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Collaboration Compromise Heart
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

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

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