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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.

John Irving

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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Ability Burden Feels
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
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
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Memorable Running Thinking
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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Activity Bad Temper
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
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
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Be Kind Bird Rhinos
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
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
We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.
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Country Rewards Way
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
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self

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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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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