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  1. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    It's all circling around the same problem of personal liberties," Walter said. "People came to this country for either money or freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can't afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles. You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to. That's what Bill Clinton figured out - that we can't win elections by running against personal liberties. Especially not against guns, actually.
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  2. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don't have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can't afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles.
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  3. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    A contact low.
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  4. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    {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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  5. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    Katz could see that Patty, in the seemingly random life-meanderings that Walter had just described to him, had in fact deliberately been trampling symbols in a cornfield, spelling out a message unreadable to Walter at ground level but clear as could be to Katz at great height. IT'S NOT OVER, IT'S NOT OVER.
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  6. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida
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  7. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    Katz had read extensively in popular sociobiology, and his understanding of the depressive personality type and its seemingly perverse persistence in the human gene pool was that depression was a successful adaptation to ceaseless pain and hardship.
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  8. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    Never been a washcloth user, no.
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  9. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    Patty começou a chorar por motivos que se sentia triste demais para examinar.
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  10. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    The cold breeze and the cold of Richard's Camel were mixing like joy and remorse."
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  11. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    Няма по-сигурна победа над бащата от смъртта.
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  12. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    I'm a carnivore, a carnivore, a terrible disgusting carnivore.
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