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Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.
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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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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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
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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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My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.
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It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
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I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.
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The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.
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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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Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.
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I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.
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However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.
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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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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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I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.
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I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.
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Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.
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I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.
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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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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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