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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
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New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.
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Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.
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And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.
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She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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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 have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is that it makes me write at the speed that I feel I should be composing, rather than faster than I can think, which is what happens to me on any keyboard.
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Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually and almost everyone needs to.
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And never forget, there is memory.
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Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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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 think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
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Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.
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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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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
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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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