What did Jonathan Franzen mean by: I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists. - Jonathan Franzen Novelist Copy
+ Use well thy freedom. Feraz Zeid, November 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, 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
+ Popularity has become its own justification. Feraz Zeid, September 3, 2023December 24, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Justification, Popularity, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. Feraz Zeid, July 4, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Book, Silence, 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
+ 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
+ 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 particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, Distance, Fiction, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
