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Jonathan Ames

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

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Jonathan Ames

I grew up in northern New Jersey – the banlieue of New York – and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.

– Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames

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

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Jonathan Ames

I promote my own self-hatred.

– Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames

I don’t mind being ridiculed – well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes – it’s all very ephemeral; it doesn’t really matter what people think of me.

– Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames

I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger’s meets Tourettes meets prose.

– Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it’s the greater wealth.

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Jonathan Ames

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

– Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames

Twitter is so severe, you know? And it’s completely for free, it’s scattershot, and it’s very easy to feel embarrassed. It’s hard to be artful with it. It’s like a ticker tape. It’s not a forum that’s worth mastering, you know?

– Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames

The reason it’s hard for me to tweet is I don’t want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

– Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames

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

Jonathan Ames

I don’t have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.

– Jonathan Ames

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