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

John Irving

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

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I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
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Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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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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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
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I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
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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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In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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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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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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