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I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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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. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#chicken #freak #geek #head #horrible

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#black #black hole #everything #hole #love

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

— Jonathan Lethem

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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

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My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#actor #black #black and white #film #ford

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. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#available #buildings #changed #hasn #haven

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

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