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I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
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Jonathan Ames
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 23
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Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.
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How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.
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Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.
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I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run quickly through a forest.
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There's no shortage of material in life.
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I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.
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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 don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.
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I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.
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I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
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To write about a place, you have to live there.
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Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.
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I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.
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