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Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

John Irving

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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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I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.
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When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.
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And never forget, there is memory.
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Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
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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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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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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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There's nothing as scary as the future.
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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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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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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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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.
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Half my life is an act of revision.
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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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Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
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