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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
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Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
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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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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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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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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Imagining something is better than remembering something.
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I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
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And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
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