Jennifer Egan Quotes
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given.
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The one thing humans can't control is time, but what if one has the power to do so is the core theme of '24.'
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I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.
