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Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!
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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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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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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People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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