What did Jonathan Franzen mean by: He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure. - Jonathan Franzen Novelist Copy
+ 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
+ Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, Ignorance, Skills, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ You see more sitting still than chasing after. Feraz Zeid, July 14, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Chasing, Sitting Still, Still, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ Being dead’s only a problem if you know you’re dead, which you never do because you’re dead! Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, Problem, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ Without privacy there was no point in being an individual. Feraz Zeid, August 3, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Individual, No Point, Privacy, 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
+ If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody’s perfect. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, Perfect, Remember, 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
When you’re in show business no matter what you’re doing it’s an insecure business. - Lorna Luft Actress and singer · USA
Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval. Explain - Wayne Dyer Author · USA
Needing approval is like saying ‘your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself’. Explain - Wayne Dyer Author · USA
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. - Will Self Author · United Kingdom
You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure. - William H. Macy Actor · USA
