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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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In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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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 certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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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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Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.
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…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.
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You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.
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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.
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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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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.
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I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.
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