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Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually and almost everyone needs to.

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Dying
Leave
Almost
Everyone
Home
Needs
Eventually

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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.
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Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!
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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.
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It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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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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Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
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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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People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
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Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either
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