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

John Irving

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
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
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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Aware Constantly Reason
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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Cancer Reading Real
A novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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Diaries Floor Wall Writing
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
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Book Long Writing
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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Hair Ocean Powerful
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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Collaboration Compromise Heart
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
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
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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Adults Resentment Teenagers
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
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

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