“I admire your capacity for admiring.”
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Jonathan Franzen 50
novelist 1959Related quotes
Baccalaureate address as President of Yale (12 June 1966)
“I do not admire that you do not undertake your face, man!”
Quotes from him, Csillag születik (talent show between 2011-2012)
“I am a very big admirer of Hillary's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.”
On Question Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etg5lm92Io8, 18 September, 2008.
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
Variant: When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
“Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.”
"Elegy in the Classroom"
Referring to Robert Lowell
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
Variant: Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.
“Son, son, I admire your sincerity. Always be sincere - whether you mean it or not.”
The Reluctant Cannibal
“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.”