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Things Quotes by Jonathan Franzen
- 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…
- To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you…
- It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you…
- I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was…
- The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things…
- She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so…
- But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person…
- I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not…
- 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…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle