5 Quotes & Sayings By Mark Leyner

Mark Leyner is a writer whose work has been translated into more than fifty languages. His novels include the bestselling novel My Horizontal Life and The Most Famous Man in America, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. His latest novel is How to Become a Virgin Again. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 and the Kingsley Tufts Award from Tufts University in 2008 Read more

In his spare time, he runs a publishing company, teaches writing at The New School, and continues to write short fiction.

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I tend to interpret that whole 'everyone's wife is a Mossad agent' thing in a more sort of metaphorical way--that people you're intimate with might be, like, 'double agents, ' y'know? It's a weird kind of paranoia you get about people you love--that they might turn out to be completely different from who you think they are, that it's all been some sort of diabolically patient plot against you. I think that's a pretty normal fear you have in any serious relationship. And that's why it's such a popular part of the epic, because so many people can relate to that fear. But personally, I don't really worry about it too much. . Mark Leyner
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So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick--- Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing. Mark Leyner
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One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to the effete disputations of armchair scholars. He grapples with them himself, in his own lifetime. Mark Leyner
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A person's name is a fate-conjuring incantation. Mark Leyner