If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind? - John Irving

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If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?

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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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Birth Name: John Wallace Blunt
Alternative Names: John Winslow Irving • John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
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