"Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and……" — Jonathan Lethem
"Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble."
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76 Quotes by Jonathan Lethem
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When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and…
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How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best?…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
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