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Present Quotes by Jennifer Egan
- Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that…
- I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized on its wistful…
- 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…
More Present Quotes
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of… — Dalai Lama
- The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson