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Jonathan Lethem

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"Oh, oh, oh being a soldier... I remember that day... and that time.. and some moments.. I am still confused... as a soldier you could kill first somebody without a reason with soldier way string from piano... as a second... we use codes likePanda on Black... Black and white... Over the Game... Game the Shit... and many others what do they mean!?!?- Ohhhhh... you don't want to know, do ya???"

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Amber Hurdle

"Yeah, I remember that day... At that day I choose a book now is few years later and so far I never open it..."

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Amber Hurdle

"You can never leave a place unless you leave that place in your mind!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"

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Amber Hurdle

"But memory is less disposed to compromise."

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Amber Hurdle

"Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire."

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Amber Hurdle

"At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?"Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley."The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the big mountains back there?"The old dark eyes grew fixed, and their light turned inward on the years that were living in Gitano's head."

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Amber Hurdle

"There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning."

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Amber Hurdle

"Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping."

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Amber Hurdle

"It disturbs me that he can remember some of these things about himself, but not others; that the things he's lost or misplaced exist now only for me. If he's forgotten so much, what have I forgotten?"

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Jonathan Lethem
"I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example."

Friendship

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Jonathan Lethem
"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

Books

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Jonathan Lethem
"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."

Religion

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Jonathan Lethem
"I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world."

Work

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Jonathan Lethem
"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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Jonathan Lethem
"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."

People

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Jonathan Lethem
"I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts."

Literature

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

Expectation

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Jonathan Lethem
"I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space."

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

Love

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