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The Feral Detective QUOTES

The Feral Detective QUOTES

1 " Like other names I censored lately, this was a vote against invoking monsters, against etching their reality into the air. "

― Jonathan Lethem , The Feral Detective

2 " So I took my phone to a bakery and coffee shop called Some Crust and read Elena Ferrante at an outdoor table and hoped for some amusing college student to hit on me. I got hit on by amusing senior citizens instead. Perhaps they, like the Klan, had been lately emboldened. "

― Jonathan Lethem , The Feral Detective

3 " Television had elected itself, I figured. It could watch itself too, for all I cared. I read my book. "

― Jonathan Lethem , The Feral Detective

4 " on the one hand there’s mansplaining, and on the other, there’s the sound of a woman quoting the mansplaining to another woman. "

― Jonathan Lethem , The Feral Detective

5 " Then again, the story does involve a missing person, and it could well be me. Or you, or practically anybody. As he said to me once, who's not missing? "

― Jonathan Lethem , The Feral Detective