What did Jonathan Franzen mean by: The world was ending then, it’s ending still, and I’m happy to belong to it again. - Jonathan Franzen Novelist Copy
+ You’re either reading a book or you’re not. Feraz Zeid, July 20, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Book, Reading, 0 - Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people. Feraz Zeid, September 20, 2023December 24, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Falling In Love, Funny, Witty, 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ Use well thy freedom. Feraz Zeid, November 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, 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
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
