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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.

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Thinking
Grownups
People
Perfect
Beautiful
Hands
Kids
Much
Men
Think

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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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