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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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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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The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves. ↗

— David Letterman

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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side. ↗

— Adam Levine

#confused #emotionally #enables #honest #i

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight. ↗

— James Levine

#change #i #overnight #thought #world

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet. ↗

— Philip Levine

#i #old #poet #too #written

I write what's given me to write. ↗

— Philip Levine

#i #i write #me #write

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. ↗

— Philip Levine

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No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you. ↗

— Philip Levine

#himself #just #like #much #sound

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. ↗

— Philip Levine

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