Jonathan Franzen Quotes
I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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No two wars are identical.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.
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There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.
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Can't trust a fascist-truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state
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I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.
