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One Quotes by Jennifer Egan
- 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…
- One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
- I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene…
- The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I…
- I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.
- Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is…
- If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The…
- I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference,…
- and the question is, which one is really “you,
- Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters…
- At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of a…
- No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.
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