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Jonathan Franzen

"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."

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"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."

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"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"

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"There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres."

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"Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!"

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"The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!"

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"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

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Amber Hurdle

"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"

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"Soundless echoes - no voice,Sadness doth keep thee at bay,Stagnation rises as ebb & flow,Nothing alters,Unless you choose to break away."

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Amber Hurdle

"Re-position yourself.To change your situation change your position."

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Amber Hurdle

"Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?"

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"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."
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"It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated."
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