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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
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 always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
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There's nothing as scary as the future.
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You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
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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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I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
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…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.
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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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Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
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Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story rumors don't care what's true.
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A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.
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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.
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