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There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.

John Irving

So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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Fashion Real Term Work
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
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
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
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
You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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Country Names Play
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
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
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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Funeral Hymns Thinking
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
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
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself

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