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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Also Known As
Birth Name:
John Wallace Blunt
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John Winslow Irving
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John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
I don't want you to describe to me — not ever — what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand.
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
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I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.’ (David Copperfield)
“But all that night he lay awake because the phantoms of those days were not gone. Like the tiny, terrible holes in the prophylactics, the phantoms of those days were not easy to detect — and their meaning was unknown — but they were there.
