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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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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.
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Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
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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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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support they want someone to say, Good job.
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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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Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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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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You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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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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And never forget, there is memory.
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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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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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You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
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I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we’re understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball.
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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
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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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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 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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So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.
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