"Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude."

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Source : Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.40, Macmillan

Jonathan Franzen

#Solitude Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Problem Quotes

“If all men were just there would be no need of valor.”
“I'm going to give the people their money's worth...true sports entertainment for their dollar. I'm the undefeated IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion making my fifth title defense. The crowd will be with me because everybody wants to be with a winner.”
“God does not always heal us instantly the way we think. He is not a jack-in-the-box God. But God is walking with me through this.”
“Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.”
“Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.”
“Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the music is so vast, and I think that's what knocks people out about him. But he's such a tasty player too. I think if Chopin had played guitar, he would have sounded like Lenny Breau.”
“People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.”
“[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply to the aspirations of a transcendent sanctity, but to the dictates of the most common honesty. He showed that they had applauded falsehood, that they had practised the most wholesale forgery, that they had habitually and grossly falsified history, that they had adopted to the fullest extent the system of pious frauds, and that they continually employed them to stimulate the devotion of the people.”

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