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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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New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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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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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.
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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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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.
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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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A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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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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Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.
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