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Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.
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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.
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Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.
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Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either
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Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
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You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
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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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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
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Born:
March 2, 1942
(age 82)
Bio:
John Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
Known for:
Avenue of Mysteries (2015)
The World According to Garp (1978)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
The Cider House Rules (1985)
In One Person (2012)
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