"she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like."

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Source : Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.18, Macmillan

Jonathan Franzen

#Ideas Quotes #Personality Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.”
“Assuredly, the size of (Cadel) Evans' heart will come to be compared to Phar Lap.”
“Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.”
“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.”
“A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the Right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional - a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure.”
“The third-date rule [that you need to have sex by the third date] treats sex like it's the down payment on a relationship.”
“The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled.”
“I don't believe we're hateful.Â I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same.”

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