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Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.
— Jonathan Kellerman
Opening his arms he said quietly to her, Disappear here.
— Jonathan Carroll
Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.
— Jonathan Franzen
Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
— Jonathan Coe
I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.
— Jonathan Turley
When the world is mine, then you all will be the 99.9%.
— Scott Jonathan Nixon
Take It and Like It
— Jonathan Coe
Bruno's brain might have parachuted somewhere over the Atlantic.
— Jonathan Lethem
Objectivity is just male subjectivity.
— Jonathan Coe
Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.
— Jonathan Coe
No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.
— Jonathan Kozol
When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it?
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.
— Jonathan Lethem
Tomorrow was over the horizon and it would take an entire day to reach
— Jonathan Safran Foer
There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Whatever the opposite of a plan is, that's what I've got.
— Jonathan Tropper
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
— Jonathan Coe
What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in
— Jonathan Franzen
The same whom create, is the same whom will destinate.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.
— Jonathan Brandis
i couldn't speak the language of his feelings
— Jonathan Safran Foer
She is deranged," I said, "but so so playful.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
There may never be world peace but there will always be love.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
— Jonathan Coe
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
I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.
— Jonathan Nolan
When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.
— Jonathan Rhys Meyers
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
— Jonathan Coe
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.
— Jonathan Coe
Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
[ ... ] words are tricky little bastards, and very rarely say what you want them to say [ ... ]
— Jonathan Coe
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
— Jonathan Coe
I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
— Jonathan Coe
Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.
— Jonathan Coe
Well, I like the rain before it falls.
— Jonathan Coe
Am I the same person that I dream about?
— Jonathan Coe
The upshot was that she lost her religion - with a vengeance - and walked out on him, taking these three daughters with her. Faith, Hope and Brenda.
— Jonathan Coe
Don't you know what a pussy is, sir?'
'Of course he doesn't. He hasn't even seen Basic Instinct. — Jonathan Coe
'Of course he doesn't. He hasn't even seen Basic Instinct. — Jonathan Coe
I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
— Jonathan Coe
But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.
— Jonathan Coe
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
— Jonathan Coe
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
— Jonathan Swift
A beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.
— Jonathan Ive
Words are the clothing of our thoughts.
— Jonathan Swift
I put my money on Brexit. The EU Financial Stability Commissioner, Jonathan Hill from Britain, still owes me a pound.
— Jean-Claude Juncker
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
— Jonathan Kozol
How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day,
— Jonathan Larson
Human beings are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee.
— Jonathan Haidt
I am a longtime, rabid fan of Jonathan Kozol.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.
— Jonathan Franzen
I'll buy Chiquita bananas with your smoking-fund money cos this monkey is our future. All hail the monkey!
— Jonathan Dunne
There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.'" Jacob
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Life's too short to cavort with fork-tongued carnivores.
— Jonathan Heatt
Why bother reading something that you won't remember?
— Jonathan Nolan
Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.
— Jonathan D. Spence
I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.
— Jonathan Maberry
If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story
— Jonathan Gottschall
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
— Jonathan Swift
The original 'Caddyshack' with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray is one of the best comedies ever made.
— Jonathan Silverman
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
— Jonathan Franzen
Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.
— Jonathan Carroll
Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.
— Jonathan Banks
Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. - EPICTETUS
— Jonathan Haidt
If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.
— Jonathan Haidt
Evil don't die. It just waits.
— Jonathan Maberry
Segregation, he concluded, is neither sought nor imposed by healthy ... human beings.
— Jonathan Kozol
The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
My hunger serves me instead of a clock.
— Jonathan Swift
Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.
— Jonathan Tropper
Live your life with the will, to understand life.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.
— Jonathan Safran Foer