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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
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Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
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If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?
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Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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