Jonathan Lethem Quotes about Heart

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All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart...

All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart...

Heart, Path

"For Novelist Jonathan Lethem, Radicalism Runs In The Family". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 8, 2014.

My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.

Jonathan Lethem

Heart, Reality, Mad

My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.

Jonathan Lethem

Heart, My Heart, Nostalgic

Jonathan Lethem (2011). “As She Climbed Across the Table: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage

My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.

Jonathan Lethem

Heart, My Heart, Elevators

Jonathan Lethem (2014). “As She Climbed Across the Table”, p.28, Faber & Faber

Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.

Jonathan Lethem

Reading, Heart, Artist

Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.11, Vintage

Jonathan Lethem Quotes about Heart

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