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I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.
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I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
Jonathan Ames
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I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.
Jonathan Ames -
Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.
Jonathan Ames -
To write about a place, you have to live there.
Jonathan Ames -
I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.
Jonathan Ames -
I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.
Jonathan Ames -
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
Jonathan Ames
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I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
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For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.
Jonathan Ames -
A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
Jonathan Ames