Quotes by Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”

“The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.”

“I think the iPod is the true face of Republican politics, and Im in favor of the music industry standing up proud and saying it out loud: We in the Chiclet-manufacturing business are not about soc...”

“Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.”

“the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida”

“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be like, right? But in fact, if you think about it, that's kind of a s...”

“She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever seemed to get for all her choices and all her freedom was more miserable. The autobiographer is ...”

“Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy...”

“And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, than a her hurting, smelling, sweating body. Injustice had a shape, an a weight, and a temperatur...”

“there are few things harder to imagine than other peoples conversations about yourself.”