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Jonathan Earl Franzen é um romancista e ensaísta americano. Seu romance de 2001, As Correções, um drama familiar satírico, recebeu um grande reconhecimento da crítica e de público, dando a Franzen os prêmios do National Book Award e do James Tait Black Memorial Prize, e finalista dos prêmios Pulitzer e International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. O lançamento do seu romance seguinte, Liberdade , foi cercado de grande expectativa, ganhando uma grande cobertura da imprensa. Franzen foi capa da revista Time, que o chamou de o grande romancista americano. Franzen é conhecido também por seus ensaios e reportagens. Escreve para revistas como New Yorker e Harpers. Também é um observador de pássaros, o que levou a se tornar militante por sua preservação. Nos últimos anos, se tornou reconhecido por suas opiniões sobre uma ampla gama de assuntos que vão desde o Twitter , a proliferação dos “ebooks” , a desintegração da Europa e a auto-destruição da América . Wikipedia  

✵ 17. Agosto 1959  •  Outros nomes جاناتان فرانزن, Ջոնաթան Ֆրանզեն, ଜୋନାଥନ ଫ୍ରାନଜେନ
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“Por que os conservadores, que controlavam todos os três poderes do governo federal, ainda estavam tão irados - com o ceticismo respeitoso de alguns acerca da guerra do Iraque, com os casais gays que queriam casar, com o afável Al Gore e a cautelosa Hillary Clinton, com as espécies ameaçadas e seus defensores, com os impostos e o preço da gasolina que estavam entre os menores de todas as nações industrializadas, com a grande imprensa cujos controladores eram eles próprios conservadores, com os mexicanos que aparavam a grama de suas casas e lavavam os pratos em que comiam - era até certo ponto um mistério para Walter.”

Jonathan Franzen livro Freedom

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“I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.”

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“What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.”

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Jonathan Franzen livro The Corrections

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“Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.”

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Jonathan Franzen livro Purity

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“A lack of desire to spend money becomes a symptom of disease that requires expensive medication. Which medication then destroys the libido, in other words destroys the appetite for the one pleasure in life that's free, which means the person has to spend even more money on compensatory pleasures. The very definition of mental 'health' is the ability to participate in the consumer economy. When you buy into therapy, you're buying into buying.”

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Jonathan Franzen livro The Corrections

The Corrections (2001)

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”

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“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”

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Jonathan Franzen livro Freedom

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

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“And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?”

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Jonathan Franzen livro The Corrections

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Contexto: All around him, millions of newly minted American millionaires were engaged in the identical pursuit of feeling extraordinary - of buying the perfect Victorian, of skiing the virgin slope, of knowing the chef personally, of locating the beach that had no footprints. There were further tens of millions of young Americans who didn't have money but were nonetheless chasing the Perfect Cool. And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary? Who would perform the thankless work of being comparatively uncool?

“But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.”

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“Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.”

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“Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.”

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Jonathan Franzen livro How to Be Alone

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“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”

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Jonathan Franzen livro The Corrections

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“Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.”

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“But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.”

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“He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.”

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“Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a little bit, though, and everything looked reasonably normal. She believed she couldn't hurt anybody as long as she was only working.”

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Jonathan Franzen livro The Corrections

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“So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said.

Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing."

"Self-inflicted. You pathetic American."

"Different kind of prison" Chip said.”

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Jonathan Franzen livro The Corrections

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“The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.”

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Jonathan Franzen livro How to Be Alone

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“There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.”

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“I admire your capacity for admiring.”

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“It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.”

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“Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.”

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“I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.”

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“For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing… the final tipping balance.”

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Jonathan Franzen livro How to Be Alone

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