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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid. John Fowles

Intelligence Stupid Only Intelligent Races Planet Two

I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not. John Irving

I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed. John Irving

Life Day Me Mother Father My Life Met Sense Changed One Day Could Mystery Stepfather Name Became Without Up Being Grew Happen Anything Happier Then Next Who Sudden Her Things Here Kept

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. John Irving

You Stay Obsessed Got Get

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. John Irving

You Yourself Constantly No Reason Writer Revise Reason Aware Necessity

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules. John Irving

Behavior Believe Consequences Rules Those About Quite Stories Breaking Interested

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. John Updike

Alone Late Dare Writers Go Bloom Decay May Early Incorrigible

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. John Updike

Life Religion Nothingness Jobs Enables Get Us Ignore

Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides. John Updike

Worlds Others Consistently Besides Some Seem Collins Poems More Writes Gently Were Than Lovely Billy Describe Serious Startling

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods. John Updike

Light Lonely Sidewalk Bookstores Neighborhoods Spilling Onto

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. John Updike

Sports Idiot Become Past Count Frequent How Proven Five Child Just Childlike Golf Inability Us Appeals Players

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. John Updike

Naked Barefoot Approaches Mere Revolutionary Going Being

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. John Updike

Marriage Adultery First Breath Constraints Develop After

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. Jonathan Coe

Happy People Unlucky Those Had Childhood Happy Childhood Who

Going home must be like going to render an account. Joseph Conrad

Home Must Like Render Account Going Going Home

A mind grows by what it feeds on. Josiah Gilbert Holland

Mind Feeds Grows

Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself. Joyce Carol Oates

Time Good Man Unhappy Good Man Thought Anti-Semitism Mark Mark Twain Laws Various Various Reasons Had He Also Concerned Terrible Himself Feminist Very America Hard Twain Reasons

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. Joyce Carol Oates

Nature Light Once Someone Off Turned Desert Night

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