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Our memory is a monster you forget it - it does not.

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Monster
Monsters
Memory
Memories
Forget
Doe

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You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.
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This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
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Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.
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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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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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