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Some Quotes by Jennifer Egan
- I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be…
- Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
- But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through…
- Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had…
- A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread…
- Stu walked Bennie over to Chris in the chair and parted his hair to reveal some tan little creatures the size of poppy seeds moving…
- That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.
- some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished.…
- 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…
- I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their…
More Some Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach