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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Psychology
Obsessed
Stay
Obsession

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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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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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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
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In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
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Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.
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A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.
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Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!
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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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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.
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I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.
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Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually and almost everyone needs to.
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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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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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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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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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You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.
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