"...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the……" — Jonathan Lethem
"...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?"
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76 Quotes by Jonathan Lethem
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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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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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