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Jonathan Franzen has 132 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
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I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now?…
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[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you…
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
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If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood…
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How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need…
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by…
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Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in…
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If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
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The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
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When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world…
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If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into…
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed…
— Jane Austen
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While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.
— Halle Berry
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.
— Sandra Bullock
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim…
— Pamela Anderson
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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth…
— Saint Augustine
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered.…
— Laura Prepon
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Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.
— Jelena Jankovic
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I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.
— Eva Longoria
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