"You can't be deep without a surface"
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Jonathan Lethem
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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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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in…
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they…
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Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a…
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself…
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away,…
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it…
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
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I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love…
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