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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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Life

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I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.
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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
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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 is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
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You think you have a memory but it has you!
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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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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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I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.
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It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.
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Our memory is a monster you forget it - it does not.
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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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Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.
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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 a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
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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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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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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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