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All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Roberta
Liars
Knew
True
Men

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She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.
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It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we’re understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball.
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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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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.
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I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.
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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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So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.
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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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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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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive hence we remember them.
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