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Jonathan Lethem quotes: The clouds were still bunched up in the sky like a gang on a street corner, and it looked to me like they had the sun pretty effectively intimidated. The clouds were still bunched up in the sky like a gang on a street corner, and it looked to me like they had the sun pretty effectively intimidated.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive) The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive)
Jonathan Lethem quotes: By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life. By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: It was a rebus of heartbreak, misfortune a dog could parse. It was a rebus of heartbreak, misfortune a dog could parse.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: It was good while it was good. It was good while it was good.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: They got stoneder and stoneder and quit talking. They got stoneder and stoneder and quit talking.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs. I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it. I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart, All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart,
Jonathan Lethem quotes: The house on The Crescent, stepped into the hillside, had no face. In The house on The Crescent, stepped into the hillside, had no face. In
Jonathan Lethem quotes: There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways. There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Bruno's brain might have parachuted somewhere over the Atlantic. Bruno's brain might have parachuted somewhere over the Atlantic.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them. The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Baader-Meinhof Gruppe, they are called also." "Yes. Baader-Meinhof Gruppe, they are called also." "Yes.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: What exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety? What exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice. I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions. To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: There are no metaphysics. There are no metaphysics.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Open duh computer." Germans ought to farm out all positions of petty authority. The accent remained too full of implication. Open duh computer." Germans ought to farm out all positions of petty authority. The accent remained too full of implication.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life. I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Everyone's body betrayed them in different ways, it was all forgiven and never discussed. Everyone's body betrayed them in different ways, it was all forgiven and never discussed.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth. Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to. For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash. Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Minutes died serially into hours. Bruno Minutes died serially into hours. Bruno
Jonathan Lethem quotes: The whole state of Maine is unlocked. The whole state of Maine is unlocked.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art. Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I'm forever writing around a void - I guess I don't have to explain to you why that is. I'm forever writing around a void - I guess I don't have to explain to you why that is.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can't have. And then about what you receive and misuse. Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can't have. And then about what you receive and misuse.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed. It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Behold the onset of my flinty tone. Along with so much else, a soft-tissue sarcoma can apparently drain the exultation from one's prose. Behold the onset of my flinty tone. Along with so much else, a soft-tissue sarcoma can apparently drain the exultation from one's prose.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do. How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Memory is a rehearsal for a show that never goes on. Memory is a rehearsal for a show that never goes on.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Sometimes it's better not to think in questions, but I can't seem to get out of the habit. Sometimes it's better not to think in questions, but I can't seem to get out of the habit.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Life is fundamentally up for grabs Life is fundamentally up for grabs
Jonathan Lethem quotes: The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory. The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I'm tightly wound. I'm a loose cannon. Both - I'm a tightly wound loose cannon, a tight loose. I'm tightly wound. I'm a loose cannon. Both - I'm a tightly wound loose cannon, a tight loose.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved. When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account. As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition? May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?
Jonathan Lethem quotes: In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious. I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign. My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: You can't be deep without a surface You can't be deep without a surface
Jonathan Lethem quotes: You can't reclaim a thing that changes as you touch it. You can't reclaim a thing that changes as you touch it.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas. I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other. Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely. Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: His ironies were ghoulish now. His ironies were ghoulish now.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or scrapping a stopped automobile, if you had all those acres. I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or scrapping a stopped automobile, if you had all those acres.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: The revving heart of my hopefulness, kicked into gear anew, is the most precious thing about me, I refuse to vilify it. The revving heart of my hopefulness, kicked into gear anew, is the most precious thing about me, I refuse to vilify it.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time. There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want. It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: They were drones, men costumed in independent thought who'd become slaves of party groupspeak. (p. 4) They were drones, men costumed in independent thought who'd become slaves of party groupspeak. (p. 4)
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle. Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet. My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film. Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed. I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: exemplified the dull rigidity of Singapore's old colonial fantasies about itself. exemplified the dull rigidity of Singapore's old colonial fantasies about itself.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced. I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Yeah, maybe you look a little less familiar yourself. Yeah, maybe you look a little less familiar yourself.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Let him get stoned, since everybody must. Let him get stoned, since everybody must.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another. Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I am relaxed. It's just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I'm very relaxed. I am relaxed. It's just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I'm very relaxed.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented. I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I've learned not to trust what I see on television. I've learned not to trust what I see on television.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car. Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s. His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his. Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can't really make it. It's like a car Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can't really make it. It's like a car I can't drive.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Picture us, five floating nudists in oxygen masks, ragged with fatigue and degrees of schock, squeezing the last beads of antifreeze from our hair. Picture us, five floating nudists in oxygen masks, ragged with fatigue and degrees of schock, squeezing the last beads of antifreeze from our hair.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I'm always serious. That's the tragedy of my life. I'm always serious. That's the tragedy of my life.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form. I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: There was language everywhere; you could read the city, the city was a grammar There was language everywhere; you could read the city, the city was a grammar
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Prince's music calmed me as much as masturbation or a cheeseburger. Prince's music calmed me as much as masturbation or a cheeseburger.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble. Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it. She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary? What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Winter days were static glimpsed between channel flips. Winter days were static glimpsed between channel flips.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of. I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions. Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish. Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I'd forgotten my identity as the world's most pathetic superhero, become a Californian instead. I'd forgotten my identity as the world's most pathetic superhero, become a Californian instead.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world. I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I raised that kid like I was running an egg-and-spoon race through a minefield, and he was the egg. I raised that kid like I was running an egg-and-spoon race through a minefield, and he was the egg.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Sleepwalkers, leave other sleepwalkers alone! Sleepwalkers, leave other sleepwalkers alone!
Jonathan Lethem quotes: The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*. The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible. Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: Chaos didn't know what this meant. He kept feeling like somehow, intending to travel across land, he'd traveled through time instead. Chaos didn't know what this meant. He kept feeling like somehow, intending to travel across land, he'd traveled through time instead.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies. There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I've always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres. I've always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost. I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: (I)t was by Cicero's attainments that that he'd gained special witness to the liberals' adjustment to a brush with actual equality. (I)t was by Cicero's attainments that that he'd gained special witness to the liberals' adjustment to a brush with actual equality.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it. The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details. I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.
Jonathan Lethem quotes: She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek ... "Don't do that", I said. "You just met me. This is New York. She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek ... "Don't do that", I said. "You just met me. This is New York.

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