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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.
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 have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.
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The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
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Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!
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When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.
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Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
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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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If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.
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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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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.
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You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
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I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
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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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