If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

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About John Irving

Portrait of John Irving

John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American and Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.

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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

—Rose Kennedy

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The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

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Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

—Suzanne Necker

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A civilization which tends to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a fortunate few, and to make of others mere human machines, must inevitably evolve anarchy and bring destruction.

—Henry George

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

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