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People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.
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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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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Imagining something is better than remembering something.
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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
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Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually and almost everyone needs to.
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Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
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… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign it is at least a form of being human.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Your memory is a monster you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory but it has you!
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And never forget, there is memory.
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And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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The more clearly one sees this world the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.
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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'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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You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.
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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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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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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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