Jennifer Egan Quotes
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.
Jennifer Egan
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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 ...
Eldridge Cleaver
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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.
Alice Walker
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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.
Anne Sexton
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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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'You can’t, can’t be, where I,I be Follow me and you’ll see and you’ll see.'
Kid Cudi
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Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.
Betty White
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But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
William Feather
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Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.
Jez Butterworth
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
Jonathan Swift
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As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.
Jennifer Egan
