Jennifer Egan Quotes
I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different world.
Quotes to Explore
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.
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A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different world.
