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Jonathan Franzen
“The dream of a novel was more resilient than other kinds of dreaming. It could be interrupted in mid-sentence and snapped back into later.”
Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

Philip Roth
“No, if you haven’t lived through 1998, you don’t know what sanctimony is.”
Philip Roth, The Human Stain

Ruth Ozeki
“Inside? Outside? What is the difference and how can you tell? When a sound enters your body through your ears and merges with your mind, what happens to it? Is it still a sound then, or has it become something else? When you eat a wing or an egg or a drumstick, at what point is it no longer a chicken? When you read these words on a page, what happens to them, when they become you?”
Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

Jonathan Franzen
“He was realizing too late that old people weren't entirely stupid.”
Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

Amanda Montell
“That’s because language doesn’t work to manipulate people into believing things they don’t want to believe; instead, it gives them license to believe ideas they’re already open to. Language—both literal and figurative, well-intentioned and ill-intentioned, politically correct and politically incorrect—reshapes a person’s reality only if they are in an ideological place where that reshaping is welcome.”
Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

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