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Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.
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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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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I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.
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I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.
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Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.
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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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...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?
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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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