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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
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Half my life is an act of revision.
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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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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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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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The concept of writing a novel and not knowing where it's going - I don't know how to do that. Novels are plot- and character-driven, so if I don't know what becomes of people, how can I know where it should begin?
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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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I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.
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Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story rumors don't care what's true.
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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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So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.
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It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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Our memory is a monster you forget it - it does not.
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You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.
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