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The problem with making a virt...

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there's no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

I voluntarily inflicted a cert...

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

Depression, when it's clinical...

Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling. However truly you believe there's a sickness to existence that can never be cured, if you're depressed you will sooner or later surrender and say: I just don't want to feel bad anymore. The shift from depressive realism to tragic realism, from being immobilized by darkness to being sustained by it, thus strangely seems to require believing in the possibility of a cure...

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong...

It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

Just as the camera draws a sta...

Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

As with all forms of liberatio...

As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

Depression presents itself as ...

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

An ink bottle, which now seems...

An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

It seems to me self-evident th...

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

I wanted all of her and resent...

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

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

For every reader who dies toda...

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

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

The world was ending then, it'...

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

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

The novelist has more and more...

The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture?

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

I find it a huge strain to be ...

I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

I feel that working environmen...

I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

I had a Viking sense of entitl...

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

It's just a matter of writing ...

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

How wrong to have been so nega...

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.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wa...

Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was 'a way out of loneliness.Ђќ (NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.)

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

Nell Zink is a writer of extra...

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

Jonathan Franzen 153 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....