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resqectable · 7 months
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At a certain point, I just have to try not too think to much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen
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quotemadness · 10 months
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I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen
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perfectfeelings · 3 months
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I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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thoughtkick · 1 year
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I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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quotefeeling · 4 months
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At a certain point, I just have to try not too think to much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen
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perfeqt · 25 days
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At a certain point, I just have to try not too think to much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen
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thehopefulquotes · 6 months
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At a certain point, I just have to try not too think to much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen
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dk-thrive · 3 months
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Joy can be as strong as Everclear or as mild as Coors Light, but it’s never not joy: a blossoming in the heart, a yes to the world, a yes to being alive in it.
— Jonathan Franzen, from "The Problem of Nature Writing" in The New Yorker (August 12, 2023)
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somerabbitholes · 1 year
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i had a lovely saturday! completely switched off from all work and research related things, cleaned my house, bought a book and some art prints — mondrian, naturally — bought a new cup, and started crossroads, the only thing i have left to read in my franzen plan for the year
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theblackestofsuns · 3 months
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Antoine Maillard's illustration for Jonathan Franzen's piece in this week's New Yorker magazine.
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mostlyghostie · 3 months
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Barely read anything that came out in 2023 this year, but these are the three books I liked most that I read this year, and all very different.
Chapters (2023) is a kind of comedic, kind of poetry book that is beautifully designed
Whereabouts (2021) is a series of short stories about a woman’s contentedly lonely experiences living in Italy
Crossroads (2022) is a huge interconnected book covering the run up to Christmas from the perspectives of every member of an extremely screwed up family in 70s America in and around an influential evangelical youth group
Next year I would like to get over my hardback aversion and read a lot more brand new fiction.
I pre-ordered Chapters and got a beer mat with it, featuring one of the poems:
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resqectable · 6 months
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I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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perfectquote · 1 year
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At a certain point, I just have to try not too think to much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen
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perfectfeelings · 5 months
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I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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thoughtkick · 1 year
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At a certain point, I just have to try not too think to much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen
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quotefeeling · 6 days
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I guess my life hasn't always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they'll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen
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