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What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?
Jonathan Lethem
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Jonathan Lethem
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 19
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Jonathan Allen Lethem
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The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
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Some people have things written all over their faces the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.
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I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realizeВ people are buying the whole thing.
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It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area.
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One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.
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I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume.
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My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.
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There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.
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Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
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Reading and writing are the same thing it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.
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I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
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I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.
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I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.
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...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?
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There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
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I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.
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