What did Jonathan Franzen mean by: It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. - Jonathan Franzen Novelist Copy
+ The world was ending then, it’s ending still, and I’m happy to belong to it again. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn’t always agreeable or attractive. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jonathan Franzen, About Yourself, Attractive, Children, 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
+ Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures. Feraz Zeid, August 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Becoming, 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
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
