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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
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And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.
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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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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.
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