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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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Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.
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Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually and almost everyone needs to.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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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 dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!
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This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
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My life is a reading list.
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The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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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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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.
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