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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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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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And never forget, there is memory.
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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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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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I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.
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