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"Garp didn't want a daughter because of men. Because of bad men, certainly; but even, he thought, because of men like me."
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"Never abandon widows, widowers and orphans."
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"My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah, said, "Money matters is only a matter of fancy."
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"Money cannot buy love."
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"You know, in a society where children just about have to seek parental permission to sit on Santa's knee, the word 'paedophile' should send more shivers up your spine than the word 'druggie'."
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"Never look too far to find a family. Your neighbour is your closest family."
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"These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous, and most importantly, you got to send them to the recycle bin."
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"Did you see that dress? "I saw the dress. "Did you like it? He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. "Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance? When he spoke, I could barely hear him. "You'll endanger the school. I smiled and fell asleep."
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"Men love pleasure, but women wish for purposeful promise."
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"Laugh, and the world longs to be your friend."
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"The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!"
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"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."
Writing
"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."
Being
"Half my life is an act of revision."
Life
"More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina."
Life
"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
Reading
"No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him."
Family
"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."
Business
"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."
Reason
"Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy."
Nostalgia
"If you care about something you have to protect it " If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
Courage
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