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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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Amber Hurdle

"Anyone that refuses to grow will remain in the past. It is a demand of life."

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Amber Hurdle

"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."

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Amber Hurdle

"Make a change of your steps when necessary. "Status quo" is the court room where change is kept on trial for long, delaying the verdict. Make a change and achieve your dreams. Rule your case with victory."

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Amber Hurdle

"But it is not your own Shire,' said Gildor. 'Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological."

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Amber Hurdle

"When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."

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Amber Hurdle

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."

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Amber Hurdle

"We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it."

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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
"I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself."

Experience

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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
"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."

Life

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Jonathan Franzen
"I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover."

Fact

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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
"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."

Change

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

Globalization

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