Jonathan Lethem Quotes

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

Jonathan Lethem

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle class. I slept in the hallway on a cot that rolled away during the day, and my younger brother and sister slept in my parents' room. My goal as a kid was to someday have my own room and to own a car - and I wanted to be able to take care of my parents.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.

Jerrod Carmichael

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The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together.

Amanullah Khan

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The only respect you should have is the one you earn.

Stellan Skarsgard

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I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.'

Sophie Thompson

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I entered the University of Natal as a preliminary-year student in 1966 and stayed on to June 1972, when I was expelled from the university. I was then doing third-year medicine.

Steven Biko

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I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.

Trey Anastasio

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You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.

Toni Braxton

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The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

Milton Friedman

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I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves.

Jay Parini

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