"Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures."

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Jonathan Franzen

#Becoming Quotes

“I actually felt calmer and more serene when we got up to the tower that I think I ever have. We had literally done everything we could to prepare.”
“I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.”
“People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.”
“It wasn't too difficult to see that [Ian] Paisley would never do anything positive.”

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“I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.”
“I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.”
“The end of culture is right living”
“In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.”

Source : David Graeber (2014). “Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years”, p.505, Melville House

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