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Jonathan Franzen

"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"

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"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"

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A.E. Samaan

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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A.E. Samaan

"The world system is employment."

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A.E. Samaan

"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

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A.E. Samaan

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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A.E. Samaan

"Do not be weary to make money."

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A.E. Samaan

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

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A.E. Samaan

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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A.E. Samaan

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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A.E. Samaan

"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

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A.E. Samaan

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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Jonathan Franzen
"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."

Globalization

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Jonathan Franzen
"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"

Work

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Jonathan Franzen
"I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man."

People

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Jonathan Franzen
"But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny."

Fun

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Jonathan Franzen
"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."

People

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Jonathan Franzen
"When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way."

Family

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Jonathan Franzen
"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."

Books

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Jonathan Franzen
"I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer."

Writing

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Jonathan Franzen
"I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second."

Writing

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Jonathan Franzen
"The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need."

Pleasure

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