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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,” Barb Wiggin said, “if you touch the Baby Jesus, I’m putting you in a cow costume.
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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
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Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.
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Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.
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Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
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The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.
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. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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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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In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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There's nothing as scary as the future.
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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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