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I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.
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 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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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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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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When people call something original, 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.
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With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.
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Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.
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I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.
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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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By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
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