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Nowadays there is really only one habit of highly effective people: Don't fall behind with email.
— Jonathan Franzen
Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.
— Jonathan Franzen
It didn't feel so bad to be an orphan. It felt like the first day of a long vacation, a day as empty as the January sky was clear and sunny.
— Jonathan Franzen
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
— Jonathan Franzen
His resentment of his wife, Caroline, was moderate and well contained.
— Jonathan Franzen
It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.
— Jonathan Franzen
He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.
— Jonathan Franzen
You need closeness with other people. And how is closeness built? By sharing secrets. Colleen
— Jonathan Franzen
Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could stand it psychologically.
— 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
The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.
— Jonathan Franzen
Only silence was acceptable in its potential to be endless.
— Jonathan Franzen
Her heart was full and her senses were sharp, but her head felt liable to burst in the vacuum of her solitude.
— Jonathan Franzen
The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.
— Jonathan Franzen
The interesting people are always immoderate.
— Jonathan Franzen
She'd been drinking jug wine steadily for four hours.
— Jonathan Franzen
We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.
— Jonathan Franzen
There's hardly anybody who doesn't hate somebody now, and nobody at all whom somebody doesn't hate.
— Jonathan Franzen
I hate that word dysfunction.
— Jonathan Franzen
She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.
— Jonathan Franzen
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
— Jonathan Franzen
I'm just happy you're home safely.
— Jonathan Franzen
What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in
— Jonathan Franzen
He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.
— Jonathan Franzen
The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.
— Jonathan Franzen
Everyone thinks they have strict limits," she said, "until they cross them.
— Jonathan Franzen
He spoke of his lifelong crusade on behalf of fifty-watt lightbulbs. ("Sixty's too bright," he said, "and forty is too dim.
— Jonathan Franzen
She felt as if, while working and sleeping and working and sleeping, she'd aged so rapidly that she'd passed Emile and caught up with her parents.
— Jonathan Franzen
It's the fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.
— Jonathan Franzen
He was a sleaze, a nobody, a former graduate student of English studies.
— Jonathan Franzen
How, by the logic of addiction, could we not have proceeded to the needle and the vein?
— Jonathan Franzen
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.
— Jonathan Franzen
Most of the lights were burning brightly, but near the center of the spool was a patch of unlit bulbs - a substantia nigra deep inside the tangle.
— Jonathan Franzen
Hell-o-oh," she called with the silly lilt with which she and Tom announced arrivals. "Hello," Tom called from the living room, without the lilt.
— Jonathan Franzen
How well aware the body was of what it wanted. How quickly it gleaned the news it could use.
— Jonathan Franzen
She was having an outburst with no advance warning.
— Jonathan Franzen
My practical intelligence said no, but my heart said yes.
— Jonathan Franzen
I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.
— Jonathan Franzen
Stevia does something funny to the chemistry of my mouth. There's no fooling a taste bud, in my experience.
— Jonathan Franzen
Around her ribs and waist were curves of the kind that wind carves in snowdrifts.
— Jonathan Franzen
I'm a carnivore, a carnivore, a terrible disgusting carnivore.
— Jonathan Franzen
He wasn't constituted to hate himself subjectively, but he did hate the object he was in the world.
— Jonathan Franzen
I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.
— Jonathan Franzen
It was heartbreaking to see old Ossis trying to ape the thinking of Wessis, trying to master the lingo of capitalist self-promotion.
— Jonathan Franzen
There are few things harder to imagine than other people's conversations about yourself.
— Jonathan Franzen
![Jonathan Franzen Quotes By Jonathan Franzen: [Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jonathan-franzen-quotes-by-jonathan-franzen-1001705.jpg "Jonathan Franzen Quotes By Jonathan Franzen: [Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around")
[Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved
— Jonathan Franzen
The cold breeze and the cold of Richard's Camel were mixing like joy and remorse.
— Jonathan Franzen
The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
— Jonathan Franzen
The following afternoon, alone in their room, and oppressed by not yet having made the promised call to Connie ...
— Jonathan Franzen
That was the way most people were - stupid.
— Jonathan Franzen
You can think of me thinking of you, because that's what I'll be doing whenever you think of me.
— Jonathan Franzen
To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can't really multitask reading a book.
— Jonathan Franzen
Use well thy freedom.
— Jonathan Franzen
For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing ... the final tipping balance.
— Jonathan Franzen
Her body looked to be only a healthy diet and some regular exercise away from greatness,
— Jonathan Franzen
He knows how love blinds people to the truth about the one they are in love with.
— Jonathan Franzen
Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.
— Jonathan Franzen
What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.
— Jonathan Franzen
Power, power, power: how could the world be organized around the struggle for a thing so lonely and oppressive in the having of it?
— Jonathan Franzen
I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.
— Jonathan Franzen
I may be dead tomorrow, I said to myself, but
— Jonathan Franzen
Respectless and depraved, maybe. But happily respectless, happily depraved.
— Jonathan Franzen
Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.
— Jonathan Franzen
If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
— Jonathan Franzen
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
— Jonathan Franzen
The weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida
— Jonathan Franzen
I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
— Jonathan Franzen
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[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]
— Jonathan Franzen
It's like having one red sock in a load of white laundry. One red sock, and nothing is ever white again.
— 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
The one thing everyone in the Republic had plenty of was time. Whatever you didn't do today really could be put off until tomorrow.
— Jonathan Franzen
And Pip wanted to do good, if only for lack of better ambitions.
— Jonathan Franzen
You're either reading a book or you're not.
— Jonathan Franzen
She had a lifetime of practice at arriving late in a family of four and being loved by all.
— Jonathan Franzen
Joey wished there were some different world he could belong to, some simpler world in which a good life could be had at nobody else's expense.
— Jonathan Franzen
But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.
— Jonathan Franzen
Secrets are the way you know you even have an inside.
— Jonathan Franzen
I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.
— Jonathan Franzen
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
— Jonathan Franzen
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
— Jonathan Franzen
Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.
— Jonathan Franzen
Whatever else happened, she wanted a dog in her life.
— Jonathan Franzen
Local politicians of color said children and tomorrow. They said digital and democracy and history.
— Jonathan Franzen
It was as if the bones and veins were working their way to the surface; as if the skin were water receding to expose shapes at the bottom of a harbor.
— Jonathan Franzen
Once upon a time, it had sufficed to write 'The Sound and the Fury' or 'The Sun Also Rises.' But now bigness was essential. Thickness, length.
— Jonathan Franzen
My chances with moral vanity," Stephen interrupted, "when the alternative is
— Jonathan Franzen
He felt like a helium balloon straining skyward on a slender string.
— Jonathan Franzen
The American middle-class appetite for illegal drugs provided the capital to build some of the most sophisticated and effective companies on earth.
— Jonathan Franzen
Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
— 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
The rage inside him was titanic. How to keep from exploding? What a relief exploding was.
— Jonathan Franzen
It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.
— Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen seems like the grumpiest guy, and he doesn't seem to like much of anything, so I really don't care what he has to say.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
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
In the New Testament, the only things that mattered were love and free will.
— Jonathan Franzen
Infinitesimally soon, the eternity of his own death would commence and render all of this unreal.
— Jonathan Franzen
Dogs again had it right. They didn't trouble themselves with mysteries that could never be solved anyway.
— Jonathan Franzen
young gentleman with whom she's been osculating on
— Jonathan Franzen
The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste.
— Frank Wedekind