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Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

~Jonathan Lethem

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The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.

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I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.

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I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

~Jonathan Lethem

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Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

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I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

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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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It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

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When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 19th, 1964

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