“Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?”

—  John Irving, book The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

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American novelist and screenwriter 1942

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