"There's never any percentage in being ahead of…" — Jonathan Lethem
"There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time."
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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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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
— Sai Baba
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I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make…
— Lauren Bacall
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Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.
— Roy Acuff
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in…
— Eric Bana
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Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I…
— Drew Barrymore
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
— Roland Barthes
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead…
— Bernard Baruch
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.
— Glenn Beck
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
— Kate Adie
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In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about…
— Vinoba Bhave
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