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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
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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.
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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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When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.
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So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.
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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.
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