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Up Quotes by Jonathan Franzen
- Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and…
- 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…
- I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I…
- When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness…
- It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security…
- The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,” Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in Europe is tempered…
- Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing…
- 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,…
- Everything he'd done with regard to her in the last three years had been calculated to foreclose the intensely personal sort of talks they'd had…
- He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.
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