Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors. - John Irving

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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

John Irving

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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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