Best Jonathan Franzen Quotations
- You're either reading a book or you're not. Book
- Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews?" "Basically everything, except technical proficiency," Walter said. "Right." "But maybe especially the banality of the lyrics. 'Gotta… Banality
- The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage. Dream
- The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,” Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in Europe is tempered… All
- This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting… Actual
- There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken. Broken
- But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. Alone
- Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures. Becoming
- He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt. Hurt
- Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402). Bullshit
- Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs. All
- Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport. Been
- she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked… Anything Else
- Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing… Alive
- Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had… Anger
- 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 sociable… Along
- ...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life. Changes
- Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. Hyena
- The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger… Aliveness
- Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of being her --… Challenge
- The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He… Cap
- You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature… Big
- His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake. Awake
- Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead! Dead
- Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your… All
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