Jonathan Lethem Quotes
By Trying To Export Myself Into A Place That Didn't Fully Exist I Asked Works Of Art To Bear My Expectation That They Could Be Better Than Life, That They Could Redeem Life. In Fact, I Believe They Are, And Do. My Life Is Dedicated To That Belief. But Still, I Asked Too Much Of Them: I Asked Them Also To Be Both Safer Than Life And Fuller, A Better Family. That They Couldn't Give. At The Depths I'd Plumb Them, So Many Perfectly Sufficient Works Of Art Would Become Thin, Anemic. I Sucked The Juice Out Of What I Loved Until I Found Myself In A Desert, Sucking Rocks For Water.
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