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John Irving Quotes

I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century that produced the models of the form. I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst, and I'm not an intellectual.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1942

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Intellectual Follow Modern Century

Try and stay away from dairy - especially if you're a woman! It's really hard on your hormones.

Woman You Try Hard Away Stay

Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

Facts Reason Everything Fact Needs

There should be a path to earned legal status for those that are here. Not - not amnesty - earned legal status, which means you pay a fine and do many things over an extended period of time.

Path Time Legal You Over Pay

Access to the security clearance database would disgorge even more detailed personal information, including the foreign contacts of American officials.

American Information Security More

When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

Sleep I Am Enough Poor Concentration

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

Life Live Day Believe Year You

I'm just here to show up and fight and then get my money and go home.

Home Money Fight Go Up Here

In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It's quite interesting.

Interesting Year Long You Sometimes

I would love to go to college because you never know what is going to happen with your career, and you always want something to fall back on.

Love College You Fall Back Career

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

Music New York America You New Mean

I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.

Dreams Bridge Wish Always Tunnel

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

Susan B. Anthony

Marriage Women Live Men Transition

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