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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
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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John Winslow Irving
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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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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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There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
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Rituals are comforting rituals combat loneliness.
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She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.
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… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign it is at least a form of being human.
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And never forget, there is memory.
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You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
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They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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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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I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am attracted to what makes them angry, what makes them passionate, what outrages them, what they applaud and find sympathetic in human beings and what they detest about human beings, too. They are writers of great emotional range.
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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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