...the single ingredient in American literature that distinguishes it from other literatures of the world is a kind of giddy, illogical hopefulness. … - John Irving
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...the single ingredient in American literature that distinguishes it from other literatures of the world is a kind of giddy, illogical hopefulness. It is quite technically sophisticated while remaining ideologically naïve.
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
Alternative Names:
John Winslow Irving
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John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly — as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth — the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives
it's not god who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in him and who claim to pursue their ends in his holy name.
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