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

John Irving

…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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Heart Normal Symtons
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
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Be Kind Bird Rhinos
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking
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
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
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
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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Mean People Religious
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
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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Actor Skins Thinking
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People

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