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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

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
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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Cousin Father Years
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
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
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
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Husband Oxygen Thinking
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
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
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
Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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Beautiful Kids Men
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
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
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
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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People Sound Trying

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

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