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When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the…
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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…
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It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I…
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Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.
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I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.
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It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers,…
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Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.
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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…
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The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is…
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All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart,
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The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.
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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…
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I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm…
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I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
— Jonathan Lethem
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I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped…
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