"Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find."

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Jonathan Franzen

#People Quotes #Depth Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.”
“Or maybe...their biggest fear is that they will get close to you again, and you'll go and drop dead.”
“Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar challenges in the U.K. in the stagnation of real wages.”
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”

Source : Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap
“It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”
“Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention,”
“Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.”

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