Jonathan Lethem Quotes

But We Were Chumps And We Knew It. As Makers Of Sentences We Were Practically Fetal, Beneath Notice, Unlaunched, Fooling Around In Our Spare Time Or On Somebody Else's Dime. Nobody Loved Our Sentences As We Loved Them, And So They Congealed Or Grew Sour On Our Tongues.
We Barely Glanced At Our Wall-scribblings For Fear Of What A Few Weeks Or Even Hours Might Expose In Our Infatuations. Our Photocopied Fortune Slips We'd Find In Muddy Clogs In Storm Drains, Tangled With Advertising Flyers, Unheeded.
Our Manuscripts? Those Were Unspeakable Secrets, Kept Not Only From The World But From Each Other.
My Pages Were Shameful, Occluded Everywhere With Xxxxxx's Of Regret. I Scurried To Read Clea's Manuscript Every Time She Left The Apartment But Never Confessed That I Even Knew It Existed.
Her Title Was "Those Young Rangers Thought Love Was A Scandal Like A Bald White Head." Mine Was "I Heard The Laughter Of The Sidemen From Behind Their Instruments.

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