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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.
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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 Dave East
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I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
 John Irving
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. Theyƕre going someplace.
 John Irving
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
 John Irving
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
 John Irving
so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.
 John Irving