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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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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So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.
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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
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So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm writing that book review for every bad book reviewer I've ever known and it's a way of saying [thrusts a middle finger into the air] this is how you ought to do it. I like to rub their noses in it.
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually and almost everyone needs to.
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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.
John Irving
Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.
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Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)
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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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If you asked me one day, I might say, Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious. If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, No.
John Irving
A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
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Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.
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Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.
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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 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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Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive hence we remember them.
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