Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.
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 responsible decisions, w… - Jonathan Franzen
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 responsible decisions, w…
- Jonathan Franzen
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 are impossibly daunting. Bu… - Jonathan Franzen
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 are impossibly daunting. Bu…
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I … - Jonathan Franzen
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I …
But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. - Jonathan Franzen
But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.
If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect. - Jonathan Franzen
If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. - Jonathan Franzen
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.
Without privacy there was no point in being an individual. - Jonathan Franzen
Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. - Jonathan Franzen
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. - Jonathan Franzen
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
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