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

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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 still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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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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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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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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The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
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Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)
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I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
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If you asked me one day, I might say, Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious. If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, No.
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If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.
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The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.
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Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.
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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
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You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually and almost everyone needs to.
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When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.
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