"As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum……" — Jonathan Lethem
"As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to my neighborhood, which, at the time, was Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. This was in the 60s and 70s, before all the white people and restaurants. I really can't underscore boldly enough the fact that I grew up in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, before it was gentrified. You could get mugged!"
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76 Quotes by Jonathan Lethem
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I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.
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Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.
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