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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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Psychology
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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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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I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.
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In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
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Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
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When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.
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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive hence we remember them.
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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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The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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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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Your memory is a monster you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory but it has you!
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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you
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A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.
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