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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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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to…
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Nothing is so sour that it can't be sweetened by a good attitude.
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Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers…
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Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and…
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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the…
— Blaise Pascal
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You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to…
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Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move…
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
— William Hazlitt
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Parody is homage gone sour.
— Brendan Gill
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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
— John Milton
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
— Teresa of Avila
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