Emotional Quote by Jonathan Lethem

“I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.”

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My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.

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“If. If Mingus Rude could be kept in this place, kept somehow in Dylan's pocket, in his stinging, smudgy hands, then summer wouldn't give way to whatever came after. If. If. Fat chance. Summer on Dean Street had lasted one day and that day was over, it was dark out, had been for hours. The Williamsburg Savings Bank tower clock…

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I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

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“Memory is a rehearsal for a show that never goes on.”

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“There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.”

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