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Jonathan Franzen quotes

American Novelist August 17, 1959

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So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American."Different kind of prison" Chip said. Jonathan Franzen
They gathered not in anger but in celebration of their having found, as a generation, a gentler and more respectful way of being. A way, not incidentally, more in harmony with consuming. Jonathan Franzen
she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like. Jonathan Franzen
Cooks were the mitochondria of humanity; they had their own separate DNA, they floated in a cell and powered it but were not really of it. Jonathan Franzen
This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones. Jonathan Franzen
although in truth her passivity was calculated, because she knew passivity inflamed him. He had her, and to some extent she wanted to be had, like an animal: in a mute mutual privacy of violence. Jonathan Franzen
Serious fans always need to feel uniquely connected to the object of their fandom; they jealously guard those points of connection, however tiny or imaginary, that justify the feeling of uniqueness. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the..."
But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the..."
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something..."
Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantiv? my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book...."
I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second. Jonathan Franzen
He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself. Jonathan Franzen
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 genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others. Jonathan Franzen
She quickly discovered that the world is divided into people who know how to be comfortable by themselves on a bar chair and people who do not. Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen quote: "It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people..."
It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. Jonathan Franzen

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