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

John Irving

People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
JOHN IRVING

Answers People Ready
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
JOHN IRVING

Creative Maps Writing
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
JOHN IRVING

Caricatures Enough Long
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us — not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
JOHN IRVING

Childhood Events Loss
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
JOHN IRVING

Feet Knows Needs
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
JOHN IRVING

Decision Finals Unnecessarily
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.
JOHN IRVING

Majority People Population
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.
JOHN IRVING

Sunday Teenage Years
Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don’t mean that you can’t also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.
JOHN IRVING

Fun Hurt Mean Stories
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
JOHN IRVING

Cancer Reading Real
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
JOHN IRVING

Future Nothing Scary
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
JOHN IRVING

Doe Memories Monsters
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
JOHN IRVING

Art Hard Work Serious
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.
JOHN IRVING

Love People Wind
It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
JOHN IRVING

Matter Said Something Writing
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
JOHN IRVING

Cases Meany Owen World

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