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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.
Jonathan Lethem
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Jonathan Lethem
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 19
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
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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 have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realizeВ people are buying the whole thing.
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I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.
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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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I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.
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I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.
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All paths lead nowhere choose one with heart...
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I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...
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The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
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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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You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.
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I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.
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How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?
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The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
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Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
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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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