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“So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said.

Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing."

"Self-inflicted. You pathetic American."

"Different kind of prison" Chip said.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections

“It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.”

Jonathan Franzen book Strong Motion

Source: Strong Motion

“The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.”

Jonathan Franzen book How to Be Alone

Source: How to Be Alone

“There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.”

Jonathan Franzen book Freedom

Source: Freedom

“I admire your capacity for admiring.”

Jonathan Franzen book Freedom

Source: Freedom

“It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.”

Jonathan Franzen book How to Be Alone

Source: How to Be Alone

“Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.”

Jonathan Franzen book How to Be Alone

Source: How to Be Alone

“I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.”

Jonathan Franzen

Source: The Discomfort Zone: A Personal Journey

“For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing… the final tipping balance.”

Jonathan Franzen book How to Be Alone

Source: How to Be Alone

“His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections

“I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.”

Jonathan Franzen book Strong Motion

Source: Strong Motion

“He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections

“The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.”

Jonathan Franzen book Freedom

Source: Freedom

“Use well thy freedom.”

Jonathan Franzen book Freedom

Source: Freedom

“Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm blanket as far as it covered the soul in torment, but it never quite covered everything.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections

“It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections

“Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections

“One of the consolations of dying… Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.”

Jonathan Franzen

"Jonathan Franzen Warns Ebooks are Corroding Values," http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/30/jonathan-franzen-ebooks-values The Guardian (Jan 30, 2012).

“The taste of self-inflicted suffering, of an evening trashed in spite, brought curious satisfactions. Other people stopped being real enough to carry blame for how you felt. Only you and your refusal remained. And like self-pity, or like the blood that filled your mouth when a tooth was pulled - the salty ferric juices that you swallowed and allowed yourself to savor - refusal had a flavor for which a taste could be acquired.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

The Corrections (2001)