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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you

John Irving

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
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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Coincidence Novel Young
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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Practice Religious Two
When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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Enough Smart Writing
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
I don’t begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
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Finals Knowing Usually Voice
The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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Dread Gardener Size
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
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
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
They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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Kind Thinking Together
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
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.
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Cancer Reading Real
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.
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Creative Maps Writing

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