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John Irving

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
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
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
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
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
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
I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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Change More Patient Waiting
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Asking Giving Please
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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Memories Monsters Thinking
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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Ability Burden Feels
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Love People Wind
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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Mean People Suicide
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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Beautiful Kids Men
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
JOHN IRVING

Next Novel Writing

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