Jonathan Ames Quotes

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• I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

  Jonathan Ames

  Coffee, Writing, Drink

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• People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

  Jonathan Ames

  Confused, People, Literature

  Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.119, Pushkin Press

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• Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

  Jonathan Ames

  Language, Difficult, Knows

  Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.204, Pushkin Press

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• Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge this. They talk about the pursuit of happiness, not happiness itself.

  Jonathan Ames

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Goal, Independence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

  Jonathan Ames

  Rumor, Source, Worst

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• I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

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  College, People, Generations

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• I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

  Jonathan Ames

  Fall, Cliffs, Recognise

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• I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience, and I subscribe to this P.G. Wodehouse piece of advice: "Try to give pleasure with every sentence."

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

  Jonathan Ames

  Worry, Age, Needs

  "Jonathan Ames Talks HBO’s “Bored To Death,” Life In Brooklyn, And Wanting To Be Like Matt Damon". Interview with David Weiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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• I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a manner. But I guess when we're feeling lonely in life, we attack those who actually do love us. It's one of the things that characterizes human nature and can be summed up in one word: FLAWED.

  Jonathan Ames

  Lonely, Feelings, Acting

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• I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.

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  Moving, Destiny, Giving

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• I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much all the time that it's like I start fresh over and over and over and over. Writing-wise and life-wise.

  Jonathan Ames

  Wise, Writing, Kind

  "The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Ames". Interview with Joshua Furst, therumpus.net. July 29, 2009.

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• How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.

  Jonathan Ames

  Suicide, Trying, Poison

  Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.36, Pushkin Press

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• I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

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  Childhood, Syndromes, Stockholm Syndrome

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• I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

  Jonathan Ames

  Car, Fleas, Absurd

  Jonathan Ames (2012). “The Extra Man”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for debate, and, mostly, I fail. But I try. I like to make things. It's a way to stay busy during one's ephemeral and confusing life.

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

  Jonathan Ames

  Mean, Teeth, Caviar

  "Jonathan Ames Gave a Seemingly Drunk, Definitely Insane Speech This Weekend". www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.

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• As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

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  Children, Athlete, Player

  "'Bored to Death' creator Jonathan Ames". Interview with Robert Lloyd, latimesblogs.latimes.com. November 14, 2011.

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• There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

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  Suffering, Young Writers, Young

  Jonathan Ames (2007). “I Love You More Than You Know: Essays”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would write non-fiction, they often accused me of exaggeration and fictionalization.

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Landscape, Action

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• It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Thinking, Long

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• I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

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  Tennis, Sixteen, Complicated

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• For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

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  Book, Way, Feels

  "Bored To Death creator Jonathan Ames". Interview with Chris Kompanek, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2010.

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• I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

  Jonathan Ames

  Children, Adventure, Games

  "This Ames is True". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 21, 2011.

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