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Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Consolation
Consolation Prize
Prize
Struck
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Yo can’t reason someone out of something he didn’t reason himself into.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
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Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Technology
Expertise
Requires
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You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Things
About
Know Things About
You
Discover
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I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Kind
Violence
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I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Irony
Speak
Spiritual
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You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Conjecture
Venture
Holds
Psychic
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Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for them. The government guarantees it.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Guarantees
No Problem
Money Government Your
Prefer
Banks
Charges
Money Government Way
Payments
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The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
War
Baseball
Boxing
Debate
Fair Game
Football
Testosterone
Analogy
Contest
Imaginable
Rampant
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We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Absence
Radical
Thinking
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I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Kids
Religious
Thinking
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I found once you start writing about God it's really fun. It's like a rock singer saying "baby." "Baby, baby, baaayy-by." You start saying "God" on the page and you don't want to stop.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Baby
Fun
Writing
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People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and act like these people who can't or won't pay their bills are the dregs of society.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Bills
Heels
Banks
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I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Kind
Responsibility
Thinking
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Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyones money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.
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Bills
Greedy
Issues
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Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyone's money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Fees
Fingers
Greedy
Power Money Your
Account
Bank
Bank Account
Banks
Bill
Directly
Notice
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Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.
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Computers
Garage
Google
Investment
Microsoft
Succeed
Bill
Bill Gates
Unlike
Industries
Ventures
Yahoo
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Banks will fee you to death. If you bounce a check, the bank has a policy to re-post the check three more times to see if it will be paid. If it continues to bounce they charge a $30 overdraft every time. So, one bounced check will rack up $90 for the bank.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Bounce
Bank
Banks
Charge
Check
Fee
Rack
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Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s.
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Bizarre
Work Done Keep
Accident
Center
Directed
Entirely
Feature
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I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the task is done. I've always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most.
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Jobs
Feelings
Leaving
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I've often said, not totally jokingly, that screenwriting doesn't really qualify as real writing at all. You don't string sentences into paragraphs. You don't maintain a constant breath, or create internal rhythms, or even develop a fully-formed thought. The camera does all that work for you!
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Cameras
Real
Writing
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I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune, ecstasy, that kind of thing. But no, contemporary urban theorists seem satisfied with the merely livable, which always sounds to me like the merely survivable, the not so bad.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Contemporary
Ecstasy
Fortune
Great Tragedy
Reversal
Satisfied
Tragedy
Urban
Life Great Me
Life Great Always
Livable
Merely
Richer
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It was Dell who came out with their build-on-demand process, where they are able to keep a zero balance inventory. That means they don't purchase parts until an order is received. That is a way to greatly reduced overhead, since you don't need to warehouse parts or overstock parts you may not end up using.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Zero
Dell
Inventory
Overhead
Warehouse
Greatly
Purchase
Received
Reduced
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I think Trump has made it really hard for people to read, period. He's made it hard for me anyway. Part of his evil is the way it constantly distracts us, constantly upends our horizon. To leave your computer for three hours now is to miss a year's worth of drama. This is programmatic and common to other autocratic regimes of our times.
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Drama
Thinking
Years
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I'm interested in the ongoing war between the individual and community. That inner dissent against whatever group is surrounding you. No one wants to cede their selfhood to a group, right? And yet no one can exactly live outside the group, either. Even the most obstinate survivalist probably lives in some telepathic communion with all the other obstinate survivalists out there in the woods.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
War
Community
Groups
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I guess I will say, going back to the Judaism questions, there are mental reflexes or patterns that I think of as Jewish in my own feelings about mysticism and theology.Franz Kafka is someone I very much revere. If I believed in holy texts I'd go to him as a touchstone. Not that I read Kafka all the time at this point. In a way, this is what I most want to talk about and it's the hardest to talk about.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Feelings
Holy
Thinking
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This book, 'Free bird', is so entangled with politics. I wanted to channel my own internal political monologue in some way to get it out of my brain. I'm not happy that the themes of the book have become more relevant as the publication date nears. Most of it was written in 2014 or so, before the whole Donald Trump thing began. As people paying attention know, the rise of Trump and Trumpism is not an aberration or sudden kind of phenomena.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Book
People
Political
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As a book person and a movie person, I feel Jewish. My Dad was more Buddhist than anything, and on the West Coast I've often had the impression that Jews become Buddhists. I think, if anything, my religion has more to do with California consciousness, vibrations and energy. My wife isn't Jewish. There's nothing ceremonial going on at our house, I mean, occasionally a candle gets lit. But, definitely, my Judaism is an ongoing relationship, one that remains to be consummated.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Dad
Book
Buddhist
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My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and his life and history were very formative to myself and my family. The almost unimaginable dichotomy between the different eras of his life always crushed my brain on some level. That this guy who was shoveling carob chips out of a barrel and restocking yogurt popsicles could also have those numbers on his arm. It was an inconceivable juxtaposition. His experience was the main window for our family into any kind of social consciousness, or sense of history, or politics, even though a lot of it went unsaid.
Jonathan Raymond / Writer
Brain
Guy
Holocaust
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