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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.
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Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!
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Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either
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The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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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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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive hence we remember them.
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.
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It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.
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