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also began to lose interest in portraying in realistic ways the domestic life that most men and women lead. His ability to write from the woman’s point of view, as in the stories “Up in Michigan,” “Cat in the Rain,” and “The End of
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Writing
“Never underestimate the passion of a lonely mind.”
― The Weight of Ink
― The Weight of Ink
“You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them,”
― The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents
― The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents
“The saving of a life is equal in merit to the saving of the world. So it is said, he who saves one life saves a world. Yet if this was so, then what exactly was meant by world? Were there worlds of different size and merit? Or was the world of one soul as capacious as the world that contained all of creation—infinite, even? Was Ester’s world, peopled by her parents and her brother, equal to all the others God had created?”
― The Weight of Ink
― The Weight of Ink
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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Jonathan’s 2025 Year in Books
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