+ 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
+ It’s healthy to say uncle when your bone’s about to break. Feraz Zeid, July 9, 2023December 12, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Bones, Healthy, 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally. Feraz Zeid, September 19, 2023December 26, 2023, Jonathan Franzen, Freak, Suffering, 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
