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You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

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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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And never forget, there is memory.
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I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
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You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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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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Your memory is a monster you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory but it has you!
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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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In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.
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When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Our memory is a monster you forget it - it does not.
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Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
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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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The object of war is to survive it.
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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.
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