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All paths lead nowhere choose one with heart...

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Jonathan Lethem
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 19
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Allen Lethem
Harry Conklin
Paths
Nowhere
Lead
Choose
Path
Heart

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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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Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the world like Polaroids, and then they move on. And I'm stuck in this intense relationship to the Polaroid.
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Yet I'm making a book and I'm going to care immensely about what words get bound in the pages, and I want the object to look good. I won't believe in it and it won't be real to me until there's a finished book I can hold.
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Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.
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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 prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.
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My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.
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Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.
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I want what we all want, said Carl. To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.
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My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.
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I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.
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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'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.
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