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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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The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are…
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My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else.…
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The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with…
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I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are…
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Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but…
— Mark Dayton
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The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long…
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I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to…
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These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when…
— Marcy Kaptur
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