"I learned to write fiction the way I……" — Jonathan Lethem
"I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me."
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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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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…
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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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More Bored Quotes
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one of 1,195 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
— Richard Bach
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
— Walter Benjamin
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
— Renata Adler
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I…
— Theodore Bikel
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I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not…
— Christina Aguilera
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I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
— Danny Boyle
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I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do.…
— Tom Brady
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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