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Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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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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I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
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