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Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Perfect
Hands
Kids
People
Grownups
Till

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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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Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
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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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Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
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When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.
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You think you have a memory but it has you!
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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There's nothing as scary as the future.
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Our memory is a monster you forget it - it does not.
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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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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.
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And never forget, there is memory.
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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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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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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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And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
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Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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