“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The simple fact of the matter is that trying to be perfectly likable is incompatible with loving relationships. Sooner or later, for… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose, — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“No one stays haunted by a person they’re not still in love with.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person - a person of a different race, a… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“We who were not so pathologically far out on the spectrum of self-involvement, we dwellers of the visible spectrum who could imagine… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“People nowadays seemed to resent the railroads for abandoning romantic steam power in favor of diesel. People didn't understand the first goddamned… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“You can all supply your own favorite, most nauseating examples of the commodification of love. Mine include the wedding industry, TV ads… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The cabin was dark. Inside it was the sound of her childhood, the patter of rain on a roof that consisted only… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
If you look at the New Testament, it's a gospel of love. Yes, there's talk of judgement and there's talk of heaven… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Can a better kind of fiction save the world? There’s always some tiny hope (strange things do happen), but the answer is almost certainly… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I'm saying the structure and f the entire culture is flawed, chip said. I'm saying the bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It was this motley band of modest peeps and plovers on the beach who reminded me of the human beings I loved best -… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
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