"It was often this way, life consisted of……" — Jonathan Lethem
"It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed."
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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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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within…
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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point…
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For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's…
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If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind.…
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Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to…
— Alistair Cooke
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
— Thomas Carlyle
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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should…
— C.S. Lewis
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You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your…
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When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to…
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It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
— Coco Chanel
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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
— Mark Twain
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