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John Irving

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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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If you asked me one day, I might say, Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious. If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, No.
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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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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
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Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.
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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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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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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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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 grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.
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Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
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I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
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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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A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.
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… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign it is at least a form of being human.
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Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.
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My life is a reading list.
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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
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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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And never forget, there is memory.
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