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I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

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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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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's nothing as scary as the future.
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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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The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
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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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They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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The concept of writing a novel and not knowing where it's going - I don't know how to do that. Novels are plot- and character-driven, so if I don't know what becomes of people, how can I know where it should begin?
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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.
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If I had to be anything, he told her, I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.
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I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
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This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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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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It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either
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Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
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It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support they want someone to say, Good job.
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