"Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting." — Jonathan Franzen
"Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting."
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Jonathan Franzen
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131 Quotes by Jonathan Franzen
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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…
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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…
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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…
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How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I…
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had…
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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…
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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,…
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If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly…
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Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose,
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries…
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