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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.

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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