Jonathan Franzen Quotes

Pessimism, Feelings Of Worthlessness And Lack Of Entitlement, Inability To Derive Satisfaction From Pleasure, A Tormenting Awareness Of The World's General Crappiness: For Katz's Jewish Paternal Forebears, Who'd Been Driven From Shtetl To Shtetl By Implacable Anti-Semites, As For The Old Angles And Saxons On His Mother's Side, Who'd Labored To Grow Rye And Barley In The Poor Soils And Short Summers Of Northern Europe, Feeling Bad All The Time And Expecting The Worst Had Been Natural Ways Of Equilibriating Themselves With The Lousiness Of Their Circumstances. Few Things Gratified Depressives, After All, More Than Really Bad News. This Obviously Wasn't An Optimal Way To Live, But It Had Its Evolutionary Advantages. Depressives In Grim Situations Handed Down Their Genes, However Despairingly, While The Self-improvers Converted To Christianity Or Moved Away To Sunnier Locales.

Jonathan Franzen Quotes: Pessimism, Feelings Of Worthlessness And Lack Of Entitlement, Inability To Derive Satisfaction From Pleasure, A Tormenting Awareness Of The World's

Jonathan Franzen Quotes: Pessimism, Feelings Of Worthlessness And Lack Of Entitlement, Inability To Derive Satisfaction From Pleasure, A Tormenting Awareness Of The World's

Jonathan Franzen Quotes: Pessimism, Feelings Of Worthlessness And Lack Of Entitlement, Inability To Derive Satisfaction From Pleasure, A Tormenting Awareness Of The World's

Jonathan Franzen Quotes: Pessimism, Feelings Of Worthlessness And Lack Of Entitlement, Inability To Derive Satisfaction From Pleasure, A Tormenting Awareness Of The World's

Jonathan Franzen Quotes: Pessimism, Feelings Of Worthlessness And Lack Of Entitlement, Inability To Derive Satisfaction From Pleasure, A Tormenting Awareness Of The World's

Jonathan Franzen Quotes: Pessimism, Feelings Of Worthlessness And Lack Of Entitlement, Inability To Derive Satisfaction From Pleasure, A Tormenting Awareness Of The World's

Jonathan Franzen Quotes: Pessimism, Feelings Of Worthlessness And Lack Of Entitlement, Inability To Derive Satisfaction From Pleasure, A Tormenting Awareness Of The World's

Jonathan Franzen Quotes: Pessimism, Feelings Of Worthlessness And Lack Of Entitlement, Inability To Derive Satisfaction From Pleasure, A Tormenting Awareness Of The World's

Jonathan Franzen Quotes: Pessimism, Feelings Of Worthlessness And Lack Of Entitlement, Inability To Derive Satisfaction From Pleasure, A Tormenting Awareness Of The World's

Jonathan Franzen Quotes: Pessimism, Feelings Of Worthlessness And Lack Of Entitlement, Inability To Derive Satisfaction From Pleasure, A Tormenting Awareness Of The World's

Related Authors

Related Topics

Quotes About Getting Dream Job
I get back in the Continental and continue down the road to the cafe. Then I pull in and there's Larry Johnson's '57 Ford pickup in the parking lot. As — Neil Young
Quotes About Importance Of Health And Medicine
(Florence) Nightingale's passion for statistics enabled her to persuade the government of the importance of a whole series of health reforms. for example, many people had argued that training nurses — Simon Singh
Death Of A Step Father Quotes
As I watched my family sip champagne, I thought about how their lives trailed backward and forward from my death and then, I saw, as Samuel took the daring step — Alice Sebold
First Time Mom And Dad Quotes
And for the first time since I woke in the alley--I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to see Miya again, and Matthew and Ashlee and — Dannielle Wicks
How Badly Do You Want It Quotes
He referred to 'the myth of discipline' and how in the end it all boils down to how badly you want something. Do you really want to have a defined — Nick Mitchell