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Jonathan Lethem quotes

American Writer February 19, 1964

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Jonathan Lethem quote: "She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek..."Don't do..."
She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek..."Don't do that", I said. "You just met me. This is New York. Jonathan Lethem
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off. Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem quote: "Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from..."
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement. Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem quote: "It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of..."
It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then. Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem quote: "All Thinking is Wishful."
All Thinking is Wishful. Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem quote: "I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19,..."
I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously. Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem quote: "I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice."
I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice. Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem quote: "what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the..."
what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety? Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem quote: "Everyone's body betrayed them in different ways, it was all..."
Everyone's body betrayed them in different ways, it was all forgiven and never discussed. Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem quote: "Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of..."
Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem quote: "Winter days were static glimpsed between channel flips."
Winter days were static glimpsed between channel flips. Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem quote: "My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the..."
My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign. Jonathan Lethem
Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break every last one of them? All except for one, I suppose: the promise to judge ourselves by those standards, the promise to remember the child who would be so appalled by compromise, the child who would find jadedness wicked. Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem quote: "There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways."
There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways. Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem quote: "Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be..."
Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car." (Motherless Brooklyn) Jonathan Lethem

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