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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
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New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure. It doesn't bother me if people feel that way.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We - Americans - permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.
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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'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.
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In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
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If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?
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Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!
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Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
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It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support they want someone to say, Good job.
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The more clearly one sees this world the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.
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You think you have a memory but it has you!
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You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.
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There's nothing as scary as the future.
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I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.
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But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.
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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you
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