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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
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Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
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Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.
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I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule makes me, I suppose, seem all the more old-fashioned. I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
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Half my life is an act of revision.
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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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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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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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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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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
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I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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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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You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We - Americans - permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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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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