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Jonathan Franzen Quotes

born 1959 United States

Jonathan Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist.

United States
Essayists
Novelists

Also known as: Franzen, Jonathan

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Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.

One of the consolations of dying... Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jonathan Franzen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.