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Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

John Irving

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
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
All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.
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Judging Superiors Tolerance
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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Death Dramatic Indulgent Waiting
He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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Optimism Quality Risk
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Anticipation Excitement Thrill
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
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Sunday Teenage Years
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
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
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
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

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