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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.
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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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.
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I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .
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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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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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A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.
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Our memory is a monster you forget it - it does not.
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And never forget, there is memory.
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It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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