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I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.

Jonathan Lethem

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Jonathan Lethem
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 19
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Jonathan Allen Lethem
Harry Conklin
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I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.
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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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You can't be deep without a surface
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The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.
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I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
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I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.
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My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.
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Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
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I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel disappears, because the novel is really one of the only places in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.
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