How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so…

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

The Corrections · 2001

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Negativity Missed opportunities

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2001

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Jonathan Franzen

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Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

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