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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
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New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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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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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive hence we remember them.
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Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story rumors don't care what's true.
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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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I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
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I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.
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I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am attracted to what makes them angry, what makes them passionate, what outrages them, what they applaud and find sympathetic in human beings and what they detest about human beings, too. They are writers of great emotional range.
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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 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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You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.
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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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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.
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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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The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.
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The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.
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