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And never forget, there is memory.

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Never
Memory
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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 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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And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
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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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So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm writing that book review for every bad book reviewer I've ever known and it's a way of saying [thrusts a middle finger into the air] this is how you ought to do it. I like to rub their noses in it.
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Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.
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Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
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There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
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If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?
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He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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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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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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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you
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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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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.
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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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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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