Jennifer Egan Quotes
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.
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What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.
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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.
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Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks
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Welfare became a term of opprobrium - a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict in which liberals and conservatives clashed and children were lost sight of.
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As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.
