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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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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.
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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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In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
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People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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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 main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.
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