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You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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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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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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(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
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It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
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The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.
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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 can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?
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Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
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My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!
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When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.
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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
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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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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 don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we’re understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball.
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I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.
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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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I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.
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