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I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

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Jonathan Lethem
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 19
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New York City
New York
Jonathan Allen Lethem
Harry Conklin
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Yet I'm making a book and I'm going to care immensely about what words get bound in the pages, and I want the object to look good. I won't believe in it and it won't be real to me until there's a finished book I can hold.
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Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.
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Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.
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Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.
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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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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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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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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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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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