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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
Life
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Opera

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You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
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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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Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually and almost everyone needs to.
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. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .
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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.
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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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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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He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
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If you asked me one day, I might say, Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious. If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, No.
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Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
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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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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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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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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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