Tagged: The Hotel New Hampshire.
December 27th, 2011
So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother and someone’s older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them… That’s what happens, like it or not.
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

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August 4th, 2011
She was intimidating to me the way someone who never remembers your name can be intimidating. “In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

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