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World Quotes by Jonathan Franzen
- How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and the…
- 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…
- The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make…
- Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could stand…
- I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response to…
- The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.
- Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism…
- 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…
- I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world…
- He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable…
- Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control…
- The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach