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Jonathan Lethem Quotes

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

Jonathan Lethem

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1964

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Me Free Now Want Expectation Will

When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

Life Love Women Men Woman Man

True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

Win Champions True Always Guts Most

I totally respect the pope, and I totally respect the Catholic bishops and cardinals on doctrine.

Respect Pope Catholic Doctrine

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

Women Men Black Young Now Out

We live in a world in which there are many live things other than human beings, and many of these things can seem beautiful and amusing and interesting to us if they can catch our attention and if we can step back from our crabbed and limiting and lonely anthropocentricity to consider them.

Live Beautiful Step World Lonely

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

God Me Person Nothing Ever Gave

I swim for myself. I love it, I have fun, and just representing my country is the greatest honor I could ever have.

Love Myself Fun Have Fun Honor Swim

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

Fly Ground Them Helicopters Badly

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

Live Time New York Television New

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

Broken Story Think False Things

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

Diane von Furstenberg

School I Am World Feel America Born

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

Trust Pain Sacrifice Empathy People

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