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Jonathan Franzen

  • elf1001has quotedlast year
    The autobiographer is almost forced to the conclusion that she pitied herself for being so free.
  • elf1001has quotedlast year
    When Jessica did not reply to this, Patty forced herself to look up. Her daughter was gazing with desolate self-control at the main college building, on an outside wall of which Patty had noticed a stone graven with words of wisdom from the Class of 1920: USE WELL THY FREEDOM.
  • elf1001has quotedlast year
    Almost everybody in his dorm communicated with their parents daily, if not hourly, and although this did make him feel unexpectedly grateful to his own parents, who had been far cooler and more respectful of his wishes than he’d been able to appreciate as long as he lived next door to them, it also touched off something like a panic. He’d asked for his freedom, they’d granted it, and he couldn’t go back now.
  • elf1001has quotedlast year
    It’s all circling around the same problem of personal liberties,” Walter said. “People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don’t have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can’t afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles. You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to. That’s what Bill Clinton figured out—that we can’t win elections by running against personal liberties. Especially not against guns, actually.”
  • Nikola Mokrovichas quoted2 years ago
    Red oaks and pin oaks and swamp white oaks
  • Alena Shlyakhovayahas quoted2 years ago
    gray light of his undrugged self.
  • Alena Shlyakhovayahas quoted2 years ago
    you’re not exactly an advertisement for happy adulthood.
  • Alena Shlyakhovayahas quoted2 years ago
    He was unable to say what was wrong with anything about Melissa—her self-adoring parents, her theatricality and confidence, her infatuation with capitalism, her lack of good friends her own age. The feeling he’d had on the last day of Consuming Narratives, the feeling that he was mistaken about everything, that there was nothing wrong with the world and nothing wrong with being happy in it, that the problem was his and his alone, returned with such force that he had to sit down on the bed.
  • Alena Shlyakhovayahas quoted2 years ago
    he didn’t like her but would miss her disastrously.
  • Alena Shlyakhovayahas quoted2 years ago
    Chip had concluded that he was behaving like a depressed person.
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