"The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't."

-- Jonathan Lethem

#Keys Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Pretending Quotes

“The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.”
“I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.”
“How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.83, Macmillan
“You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.”
“All my movies are achingly personal.”
“I love to laugh.It's the only way to live. Enjoy each day-it's not coming back again!”
“I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.”

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