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First Quotes by Jennifer Egan
- The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
- And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the…
- I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd…
- I picture it like Judgement Day,' he says finally, his eyes on the water. 'We'll rise up out of our bodies and find each other…
- When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle