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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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Half my life is an act of revision.
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Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
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My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!
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Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either
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I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
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Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive hence we remember them.
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It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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If I had to be anything, he told her, I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Your memory is a monster you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory but it has you!
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I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.
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It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.
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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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