What did Jonathan Franzen mean by: Being dead’s only a problem if you know you’re dead, which you never do because you’re dead! Jonathan Franzen Novelist Copy
+ And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. Author, July 4, 2023January 2, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Intelligence, Psychological, Suspense, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ It’s healthy to say uncle when your bone’s about to break. Author, July 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Health, Safety, Surrender, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ Deploring other people–their lack of perfection–had always been our sport. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Criticism, Judgment, Perfectionism, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn’t always agreeable or attractive. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Parenthood, Reflection, Self-discovery, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. Author, October 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Independence, Reflection, Solitude, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Enchantment, Recognition, Sleep, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally. Author, September 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Globalization, Localism, Suffering, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ You see more sitting still than chasing after. Author, July 14, 2023January 2, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Observation, Patience, Reflection, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
