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In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
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It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.
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I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.
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I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.
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This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?
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I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we’re understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball.
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You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
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Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
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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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