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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
Almost
Everyone
Home
Needs
Eventually
Dying
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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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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If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Your memory is a monster you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory but it has you!
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Imagining something is better than remembering something.
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And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
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I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
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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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It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
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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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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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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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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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You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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There's nothing as scary as the future.
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