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Less Quotes by Jonathan Franzen
- I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm…
- The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage…
- Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism…
- 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,…
- And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that…
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
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- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — Jane Austen
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