What did Jonathan Franzen mean by: Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. - Jonathan Franzen Novelist Copy
+ I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, Fiction, Problem, Solitude, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ The writer’s life is a life of revisions. Feraz Zeid, July 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Revision, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it’s the right unhappiness. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, Heartbreak, Unhappiness, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator. Feraz Zeid, September 29, 2023December 26, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Spectators, Writing, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. Feraz Zeid, October 21, 2023December 26, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, First, Lessons, Reading, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ Deploring other people–their lack of perfection–had always been our sport. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, Perfection, Sports, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It’s only the people who make them unsafe. - Frank Rizzo American Politician
Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between. - James Carville Political strategist and commentator · USA
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one. - Tom Hanks Actor · USA