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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
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New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
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