What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses. - John Irving

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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

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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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Alternative Names: John Winslow Irving John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
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As for the river, it just kept moving,as river do — as rivers do. Under the logs, the body of the young Canadian moved with the river, which jostled him to and fro — to and fro. If, at this moment in time Twisted River also appeared restless, even impatient, maybe the river itself wanted the boy's body to move on, too, move on, too.

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