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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
Eventually
Dying
Leave
Almost
Everyone
Home
Needs

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A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.
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I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.
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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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I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
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You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive hence we remember them.
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Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!
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