Quotes from book

How to Be Alone

“But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”

Jonathan Franzen book How to Be Alone

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

Jonathan Franzen book How to Be Alone

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“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

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

Jonathan Franzen book How to Be Alone

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“Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.”

Jonathan Franzen book How to Be Alone

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“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