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If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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John Winslow Irving
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