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Kind Quotes by Jonathan Franzen
- It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page…
- The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
- So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.
- I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world…
- 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…
- The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it,…
- There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.
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