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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die. - John Irving
" "Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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About John Irving
John Winslow Irving (born 2 March 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (for The Cider House Rules, based on his novel of the same name).
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John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
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