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Life is an X-rated soap opera.

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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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Soap
Opera
Life

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I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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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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All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.
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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.
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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.
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In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
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Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.
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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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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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I have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is that it makes me write at the speed that I feel I should be composing, rather than faster than I can think, which is what happens to me on any keyboard.
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Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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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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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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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
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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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