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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We - Americans - permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.
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