"Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantiveâ€“ my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity."

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Source : Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.82, Macmillan

Jonathan Franzen

#Integrity Quotes #Reading Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.”

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“I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.”

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“Many, many things are dangerous in our world, commercials and TV are dangerous, and so is the world of sitcoms. But nobody does anything about them because they're turning in alot of money.”
“As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.”
“Theres really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.”
“Reagan 's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.”
“Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.”
“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”

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