"The key to mostly anything is pretending your……" — Jonathan Lethem
"The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*."
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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 arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these…
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Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
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More First Time Quotes
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one of 2,420 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
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The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first…
— David Attenborough
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I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's…
— Jensen Ackles
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When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going…
— Lauren Bacall
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have…
— Amy Adams
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for…
— James A. Baldwin
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In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively…
— Stephen Baldwin
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive…
— Gerry Adams
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