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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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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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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.
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The object of war is to survive it.
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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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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
John Irving
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.
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My life is a reading list.
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There's nothing as scary as the future.
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I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.
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If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?
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Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
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When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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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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Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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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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