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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

John Irving

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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Eyes Love People Things
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
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
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
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
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
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Minutes Way Writing
So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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Fashion Real Term Work
What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Phrases Thinking Today
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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Adults Resentment Teenagers
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Jobs Memories Writing
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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Next Novel Writing
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
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
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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Book Memories Tears

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