"Teenage life - possibly adult life too is……" — Jonathan Lethem
"Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse."
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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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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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