What did Jonathan Franzen mean by: What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn’t always agreeable or attractive. Jonathan Franzen Novelist Copy
+ It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Enchantment, Recognition, Sleep, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures. Author, August 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Imagination, Memory, Perception, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator. Author, September 29, 2023January 2, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Connection, Engagement, Friendship, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ It’s healthy to say uncle when your bone’s about to break. Author, July 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Health, Safety, Surrender, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ The world was ending then, it’s ending still, and I’m happy to belong to it again. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Apocalypse, Belonging, Happiness, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. Author, July 4, 2023January 2, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Intelligence, Psychological, Suspense, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ You see more sitting still than chasing after. Author, July 14, 2023January 2, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Observation, Patience, Reflection, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
+ But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. Author, October 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Jonathan Franzen, Independence, Reflection, Solitude, 0 Jonathan Franzen Novelist
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you’ll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself. Jean Craighead George
