"Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author."

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Source : "Five Questions for Jonathan Dee" by Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2010.

Jonathan Dee

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“You don't come to terms with something before you do it. It's only after you've done it that you realize, you know, maybe that wasn't the best thing to do. Sometimes you gotta fall down to know the feeling to get up.”
“This [U.S.] bombing in Libya. So what are we doing in Libya? We just dropped some bombs on someone who we found is a leader there, maybe we killed some group attending a leadership meeting. Does this mean the problem is going to go away? No. It means we're going to have worse guys.”
“Principles have a way of yielding to power.”
“The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.”
“I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.”
“But just because a person goes to Harvard doesn't mean he's balanced when he graduates, and just because a dog knows how to obey doesn't mean he's balanced, either.”
“If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.”
“At its core Twitter is about sharing, and I think that in life we never feel better or more energized than when we're giving to someone else.”

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