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Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

John Irving

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
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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Deceived Deceiving Hurt
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation
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
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
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Civilization Perception Years
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Care Rumor Stories
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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Children Moments Parent
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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Memorable Thinking Trying
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
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying

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