People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving… - John Irving

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People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

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

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