Jonathan Ames Quotes

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• I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff…
• I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a manner. But I guess when…
• I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.
• I wondered where the person was who had taken my place, who wanted to know what news people had been told. I'm always looking for…
• I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.
• How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well,…
• To write about a place, you have to live there.
• I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.
• A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
• As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.
• For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.
• Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in…
• I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.
• I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
• I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for…
• I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.
• I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.
• I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.
• I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing…
• I promote my own self-hatred.

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