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Jennifer Egan has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
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I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling…
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When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect…
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Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging…
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He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been…
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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am.
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So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work…
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My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is…
— David Bohm
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I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I…
— Elmore Leonard
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The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping…
— Edward Sapir
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