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You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
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New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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The concept of writing a novel and not knowing where it's going - I don't know how to do that. Novels are plot- and character-driven, so if I don't know what becomes of people, how can I know where it should begin?
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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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(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
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Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.
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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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The more clearly one sees this world the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.
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Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.
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If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?
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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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A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.
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Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.
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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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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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Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.
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Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.
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Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.
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