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Jonathan Franzen quotes about alone

American Novelist August 17, 1959

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Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when your heart's getting crushed or exalted, even when you're absorbed in building the foundations of a personality, there comes these moments when you're aware that what's happening is not the real story. Unless you actually die, the real story is still ahead of you. This alone, this cruel mixture of consciousness and... Jonathan Franzen
Not just Negroponte, who doesn't like to read, but even Birkerts, who thinks that history is ending, underestimates the instability of society and the unruly diversity of its members. The electronic apotheosis of mass culture has merely reconfirmed the elitism of literary reading, which was briefly obscured in the novel's heyday. I mourn the eclipse of the cultural authority that literature once possessed, and I rue the onset of an age so anxious that the pleasure of a text becomes difficult... Jonathan Franzen
The guiding principle of Martin’s personality, the sum of his interior existence, was the desire to be left alone. If all those years he’d sought attention, even novelty, and if he still relished them, then that was because attention proved him different and solitude begins in difference. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone."
But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone."
The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "The following afternoon, alone in their room, and oppressed by..."
The following afternoon, alone in their room, and oppressed by not yet having made the promised call to Connie... Jonathan Franzen

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