Jennifer Egan Quotes
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I don't care about revenues.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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I think there's something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic.
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If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
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I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll never catch me having a day on the sofa.
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...The modern fading of interest in religion.
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A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.
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Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).
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I crossed the tracks and sought out White prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically ... Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the White man's law ... and that I was defiling his women ...
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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He puts his bones back on,Turning the clock back an hour.She knows flesh, that skin balloon,the unbound limbs, the boards,the roof, the removable roof.She is his selection, part time.You know the story too! Look,when it is over he places her,like a phone, back on the hook.
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Ball, Theater, Gesellschaft, Kartenspiel, Hasardspiel, Pferde, Weiber, Trinken, Reisen, … reicht dies Alles gegen die Langeweile nicht aus, wo Mangel an geistigen Bedürfnissen die geistigen Genüsse unmöglich macht. Daher auch ist dem Philister ein dumpfer, trockener Ernst, der sich dem thierischen nähert, eigen und charakteristisch.
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'You can’t, can’t be, where I,I be Follow me and you’ll see and you’ll see.'
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Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.
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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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My view is we should be doing everything we can to come up with ways of exploiting the current technology effectively.
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I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.
