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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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Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.
— Tony Lema
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Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light…
— Denise Levertov
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We're not playing solitaire out here.
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No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input…
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I'm really good at solitaire and I can turn my arms in full circles.
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Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul,
— Brad Delp
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I'm not at all competitive. I'd rather play Solitaire than ping-pong.
— Johnny Galecki
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I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing…
— Margaret Drabble
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My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.
— Diane von Furstenberg
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I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is…
— Kirk Douglas
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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you…
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