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Some Quotes by Jonathan Franzen
- [T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender…
- When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world and its problems…
- If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those…
- It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's…
- I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to…
- I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
- Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings…
- ...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.
- 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…
- What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him…
- Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong