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The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.

John Irving

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
In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Scene Treatment Voice
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
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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Agendas Blind Presidential
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
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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Hair Ocean Powerful
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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Architecture Crafts Writing
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
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Book Long Writing
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
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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Children Moments Parent
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.
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Exercise Sex Sleep Writing
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
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking

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