"But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone."

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Source : Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.178, Macmillan

Jonathan Franzen

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“Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”
“You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 16, 2014
“The joining together of a man and a woman to be legally and lawfully wed not only is preparation for future generations to inherit the earth, but it also brings the greatest joy and satisfaction that can be found in this mortal experience.”
“When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how to write. To sit in a room with a bunch of would-be writers, who want to write the Great American Novel, every one of them, and you read their stories and they read yours, and you're not living a life. I don't like that. I like learning on the job. The character of my work has definitely evolved from the character of my life.”

Source : Interview with Jonathan Goldstein, believermag.com. March 1, 2013.
“We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.”
“And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.”
“Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.”
“Social embedded business processes that solve concrete needs are key to enterprise social collaboration.”

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