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John Irving

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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Practice Religious Two
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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Optimism Quality Risk
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Behavior Humans Ruthless
I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
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Adults Age Kids
They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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Kind Thinking Together
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
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
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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Awkward Procedures Regret
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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Decision Finals Unnecessarily
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
… 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’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
It’s a no-win argument – that business of what we’re born with and what our environment does to us. And it’s a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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Environment Growth Winning
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin

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