Jennifer Egan Quotes
I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in a kind of contemptuous satirical vision; I try always, even when I'm knowingly being satirical, to also be humane, but I mean, let's face it: there's plenty in American life to make fun of, and we all participate in it.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
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The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.
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The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.
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Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?
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I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in a kind of contemptuous satirical vision; I try always, even when I'm knowingly being satirical, to also be humane, but I mean, let's face it: there's plenty in American life to make fun of, and we all participate in it.
