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If you asked me one day, I might say, Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious. If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, No.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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John Winslow Irving
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Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
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Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.
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Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!
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She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.
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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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Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
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Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.
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