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The Hotel New Hampshire

Name: The Hotel New Hampshire
Author: John Irving

John Irving

The Hotel New Hampshire is a 1981 coming of age novel by American writer John Irving, his fifth published novel.

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”

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“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?”

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“You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.”

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“Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.”

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“Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.”

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“Keep passing the open windows.”

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“Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you”

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“Sorrow floats.”

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“You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”

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Source: The Hotel New Hampshire, ch. 11

“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.”

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“To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.”

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The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), ch. 6

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