"In the sea of words, the in print……" — Jonathan Lethem
"In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths."
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76 Quotes by Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem has 76 quotes on this site.
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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 Bubbles Quotes
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one of 432 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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This world's a bubble.
— Saint Augustine
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's…
— Christina Aguilera
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The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many…
— Graydon Carter
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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no…
— Henri Poincare
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Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch…
— George Santayana
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I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter…
— Theodore Dreiser
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I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to…
— George Eads
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I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.
— Roddy Piper
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Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually…
— Jennifer Granholm
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