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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.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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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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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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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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In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.
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Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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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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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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…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.
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Imagining something is better than remembering something.
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And never forget, there is memory.
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The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
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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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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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