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To write about a place, you have to live there.
Jonathan Ames
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Jonathan Ames
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 23
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I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.
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I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much all the time that it's like I start fresh over and over and over and over. Writing-wise and life-wise.
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Nothing wrong with changing your mind. That's a very unwaffling thing to say: Nothing wrong... Who am I to say that there's nothing wrong with it? Maybe something is wrong with changing your mind. Anyway, love is very, very difficult. I love. But probably because I hate myself on some deep, sick level, it makes loving difficult. But I do try.
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I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot.
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Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.
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I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.
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One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.
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There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.
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As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.
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I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.
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The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on
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