Jonathan Lethem Quotes
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.
