If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. - John Irving
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If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
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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Also Known As
Birth Name:
John Wallace Blunt
Alternative Names:
John Winslow Irving
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John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.
They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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