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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.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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John Winslow Irving
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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 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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There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.
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There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
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You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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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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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
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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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If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?
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My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.
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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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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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