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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
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New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!
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I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.
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Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
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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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Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.
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All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.
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And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.
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The object of war is to survive it.
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
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I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
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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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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .
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And never forget, there is memory.
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Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?
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