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Jonathan Franzen quotes about life

American Novelist August 17, 1959

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I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."
The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had..."
My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time. Jonathan Franzen
Chipper intuited that this feeling of futility would be a fixture in his life. A dull waiting and then a broken promise, a panicked realization of how late it was. This futility had let's call it a flavor. Jonathan Franzen
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 loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake. Jonathan Franzen
If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life. Jonathan Franzen
Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?"I don't know."I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning. Jonathan Franzen
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man. Jonathan Franzen
How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes. Jonathan Franzen

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