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"He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that theres no one else around you whos enough like yourself to understand you.""
John IrvingYour memory is a monster; you forget — it doesn’t. It simply files thi — John Irving
"Your memory is a monster; you forget — it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"
John Irving
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John Winslow Irving is an American and Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
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