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I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

Jonathan Ames

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Jonathan Ames
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 23
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Essayist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
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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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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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