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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
Memory
Memories
Forget
Never

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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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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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Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.
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A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.
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I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.
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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive hence we remember them.
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